Where is/can Donald Trump take US (sic)?
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If Obama governed exactly the same way as he did, but under the banner of the Republican Party would he be a champion of the right?
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US Navy strike group on its way to Western Pacific to confront "North Korea".
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-navy-korea-idUSKBN17A0V5?il=0
How come "we" always seem to be threatened by countries that can be bombed, droned at will? The scariest, most evil, most deadly enemy of "ours" always seem to be those whom we strike and they can't defend themselves or retaliate in kind.
Now the US is going to confront North Korea. Right after Trump just ordered 70 tomahawk missiles on another country within hours of sketchy evidence of WMD.
The US did try to take over NK soon after WW2. The Chinese sent in their Red Army and pushed them back. I mean, China didn't have much of any firepower back then, and they still did not permit North Korea to be overrun by what was undeniably the world's only superpower with nuclear freaking power.
To now see the Yellow Emperor ordering a hit because he saw something he didn't like; a hit against a proxy of another nuclear power. Imagine the kind of rethink China's military must be on now. Not just all those bases and hardware that currently surrounds China's seaboards, but a new commander in chief with no real sense of history to see the consequences of military action, sending in another aircraft carrier battle group.
Scary.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-navy-korea-idUSKBN17A0V5?il=0
How come "we" always seem to be threatened by countries that can be bombed, droned at will? The scariest, most evil, most deadly enemy of "ours" always seem to be those whom we strike and they can't defend themselves or retaliate in kind.
Now the US is going to confront North Korea. Right after Trump just ordered 70 tomahawk missiles on another country within hours of sketchy evidence of WMD.
The US did try to take over NK soon after WW2. The Chinese sent in their Red Army and pushed them back. I mean, China didn't have much of any firepower back then, and they still did not permit North Korea to be overrun by what was undeniably the world's only superpower with nuclear freaking power.
To now see the Yellow Emperor ordering a hit because he saw something he didn't like; a hit against a proxy of another nuclear power. Imagine the kind of rethink China's military must be on now. Not just all those bases and hardware that currently surrounds China's seaboards, but a new commander in chief with no real sense of history to see the consequences of military action, sending in another aircraft carrier battle group.
Scary.
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Pretty rude of Caesar not to invite the leader of one of the US's oldest allies to the White House.
Insulting I reckon. Looks like we aren't worthy of the great man's interest since Mal probably doesn't play golf.
Insulting I reckon. Looks like we aren't worthy of the great man's interest since Mal probably doesn't play golf.
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Sharks don't really exist you know.
They are just a Fabian conspiracy to stop people enjoying themselves.
Sharks don't really exist you know.
They are just a Fabian conspiracy to stop people enjoying themselves.
How very true your are for once.
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Sharks don't really exist you know.
They are just a Fabian conspiracy to stop people enjoying themselves.
I knew the greens and commies were behind preserving sharks for a reason!
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Caesar meet vassal state and colony in their order of importance. That and there are only 5 days per working week and there's a lot of paper to sign, even without reading them first.
That and a total of 1 of those 5 days are in preparation to fly to and back from his Mar-a-Lago for golfing and general business dealings with who and for what reason are none of the American public's business.
Seriously, I saw a clip of Trump signing his executive order to permit the DAPL pipeline. He signed it, held it up to show the world... then he reacts to what he just sign like he haven't read it before.
Creating hundreds of jobs, wow, that is a lot of jobs. A pipeline that's thousands of miles long, wow that is a lot of miles folks.
His kids and business partners are making a killing though.
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I reckon this story hammers home Drumps most potent success - weaponising gibberish. He has so trashed the English language nothing he says can be taken seriously - or used to show how dishonest he is. It makes very dark sense.
100 days of gibberish – Trump has weaponised nonsense
Lindy West
The Trump White House approaches language with the same roughshod entitlement he’s applying to the presidency. His sloppy lies and vague promises must not stop us holding him to account
President Donald Trump in the Oval Office last Friday, in a portrait to mark his 100th day in office, which will be on 29 April. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP
Tuesday 25 April 2017 22.09 AEST Last modified on Wednesday 26 April 2017 07.00 AEST
With only a week left of his first 100 days in office – traditionally a milestone for American presidents – Donald Trump sat down with the Associated Press to reflect on his accomplishments (sic) and preemptively brag about future ones. This remarkable artefact, a transcript of which AP then released in full, captures, more than any other piece of media (except perhaps Trump’s Twitter feed), the unifying ethos of the Trump White House: weaponised nonsense.
The interview is deep, pure, tangy, umami Trump. I felt like I was reading one of those children’s stories in which a villain’s soul is written into a book and imprisoned there for ever – only without, in America’s case, such a happy ending. Donald Trump remains in the Oval Office, making decisions about whom to explode next (in the interview he calls this responsibility “the bigness of it all”), not gathering dust on a sorcerer’s shelf. Bad! (Not good.)
Trump lies relentlessly about his achievements (claiming, for example, that he’s “mostly there” on his 100-day plan, despite appearing not to know what it is), admits he “never realised” how big a job it is to be president, forgets how many missiles he fired at Syria, even though he got the number right only 17 words earlier, and compares his TV ratings favourably to those for 9/11. In my second favourite moment in the interview – the first being when he inexplicably drops the word “hamlets” – Trump describes a meeting with Democratic congressman Elijah Cummings: (Please keep reading. It's so worth it..)
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...sh-weaponised-white-house-language-presidency
100 days of gibberish – Trump has weaponised nonsense
Lindy West
The Trump White House approaches language with the same roughshod entitlement he’s applying to the presidency. His sloppy lies and vague promises must not stop us holding him to account
President Donald Trump in the Oval Office last Friday, in a portrait to mark his 100th day in office, which will be on 29 April. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP
Tuesday 25 April 2017 22.09 AEST Last modified on Wednesday 26 April 2017 07.00 AEST
With only a week left of his first 100 days in office – traditionally a milestone for American presidents – Donald Trump sat down with the Associated Press to reflect on his accomplishments (sic) and preemptively brag about future ones. This remarkable artefact, a transcript of which AP then released in full, captures, more than any other piece of media (except perhaps Trump’s Twitter feed), the unifying ethos of the Trump White House: weaponised nonsense.
The interview is deep, pure, tangy, umami Trump. I felt like I was reading one of those children’s stories in which a villain’s soul is written into a book and imprisoned there for ever – only without, in America’s case, such a happy ending. Donald Trump remains in the Oval Office, making decisions about whom to explode next (in the interview he calls this responsibility “the bigness of it all”), not gathering dust on a sorcerer’s shelf. Bad! (Not good.)
Trump lies relentlessly about his achievements (claiming, for example, that he’s “mostly there” on his 100-day plan, despite appearing not to know what it is), admits he “never realised” how big a job it is to be president, forgets how many missiles he fired at Syria, even though he got the number right only 17 words earlier, and compares his TV ratings favourably to those for 9/11. In my second favourite moment in the interview – the first being when he inexplicably drops the word “hamlets” – Trump describes a meeting with Democratic congressman Elijah Cummings: (Please keep reading. It's so worth it..)
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...sh-weaponised-white-house-language-presidency
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Couple of stories today underline the risks Donald Trump brings to the position of President and his incapacity to think through the complex issues he faces. Well worth reading in full.
'Fake but accurate': Another reason to worry about decision-making in Trump's White House
Politico journalist Shane Goldmacher outlined a remarkable scenario in a new piece this week that unfolded recently in the West Wing. Deputy national security adviser K.T. McFarland apparently provided Trump with copies of two Time magazine covers depicting scientific concerns about a changing climate: Worries about a new ice age in the 1970s and then global warming in 2008.
Trump fumed - until staff poked around on the web and realised that the "ice age" cover was fake.
"Staff chased down the truth and intervened before Trump tweeted or talked publicly about it," Goldmacher wrote in his piece.
'Fake but accurate': Another reason to worry about decision-making in Trump's White House
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Politico journalist Shane Goldmacher outlined a remarkable scenario in a new piece this week that unfolded recently in the West Wing. Deputy national security adviser K.T. McFarland apparently provided Trump with copies of two Time magazine covers depicting scientific concerns about a changing climate: Worries about a new ice age in the 1970s and then global warming in 2008.
Trump fumed - until staff poked around on the web and realised that the "ice age" cover was fake.
"Staff chased down the truth and intervened before Trump tweeted or talked publicly about it," Goldmacher wrote in his piece.
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The second story on the dangers Donald Trump creates as President explores him giving the Russian foreign minister highly classified information that exposes intelligence assets to great danger.
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Washington: US President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former US officials, who said that Trump's disclosures jeopardised a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.
The information Trump relayed had been provided by a US partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the US government, officials said.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/wor...-minister-and-ambassador-20170515-gw5jh1.html
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Washington: US President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former US officials, who said that Trump's disclosures jeopardised a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.
The information Trump relayed had been provided by a US partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the US government, officials said.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/wor...-minister-and-ambassador-20170515-gw5jh1.html
White House denies Donald Trump revealed secrets to Russia
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THE White House says allegations by two US officials that US President Donald Trump disclosed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister about a planned Islamic State operation during their meeting last week are false.
Both officials say the intelligence was supplied by a US ally in the fight against the militant group.
But the White House says the claims are false.
“The president only discussed the common threats that both countries faced,” deputy national security adviser Dina Powell said.
Reacting to the news, first reported by The Washington Post, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, called Trump’s conduct “dangerous” and reckless.”
The Republican head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Corker, called the allegations “very, very troubling” if true.
media_cameraUS President Donald J. Trump with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during their meeting at the White House in Washington, DC last week. Picture: Russian Foreign Ministry.
One of the officials said the intelligence was classified Top Secret and also held in a secure “compartment” to which only a handful of intelligence officials have access.
After Trump disclosed the information, which one of the officials described as spontaneous, officials immediately called the CIA and the National Security Agency, both of which have agreements with a number of allied intelligence services, and informed them what had happened.
While the president has the authority to disclose even the most highly classified information at will, in this case he did so without consulting the ally that provided it, which threatens to jeopardise what they called a longstanding intelligence-sharing agreement, the US officials said. The Washington Post said that Trump shared the information with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak.
“The president and the foreign minister reviewed common threats from terrorist organisations to include threats to aviation,” H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser, who participated in the meeting said.
media_cameraUS Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, right, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the Treaty Room of the State Department in Washington, DC last week.
“At no time were any intelligence sources or methods discussed and no military operations were disclosed that were not already known publicly.”
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement that Trump and Lavrov discussed a broad range of subjects, “among which were common efforts and threats regarding counter-terrorism.” During his Oval Office meeting with Lavrov and Kislyak, Trump went off-script and began describing details about an Islamic State threat related to the use of laptop computers on aircraft, the officials told the Post.
In his conversations with the Russian officials, Trump appeared to be boasting about his knowledge of the looming threats, telling them he was briefed on “great intel every day,” an official with knowledge of the exchange said, according to the Post.
US officials have told Reuters that US agencies are in the process of drawing up plans to expand a ban on passengers carrying laptop computers onto US-bound flights from several countries on conflict zones due to new intelligence about how militant groups are refining techniques for installing bombs in laptops.
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If you go back to the original story I posted Noco you will see the problem with Trumps comments were the details of how the intelligence was obtained. In effect he has severely comprised the agents who uncovered the plots and the countries who passed this information to the US..
"But other officials expressed concern with Trump's handling of sensitive information as well as his grasp of the potential consequences. Exposure of an intelligence stream that has provided critical insight into IS, they said, could hinder the US' and its allies' ability to detect future threats.
"It is all kind of shocking," said a former senior US official close to current administration officials. "Trump seems to be very reckless, and doesn't grasp the gravity of the things he's dealing with."
Most alarmingly, officials said, Trump revealed the city in IS territory where the US intelligence partner detected the threat.
The Washington Post is withholding most plot details, including the name of the city, at the urging of officials who warned that revealing them would jeopardise important intelligence capabilities.
"Everyone knows this stream is very sensitive and the idea of sharing it at this level of granularity with the Russians is troubling," said a former senior US counter-terrorism official who also worked closely with members of the Trump national security team. He and others spoke on condition of anonymity, citing the sensitivity of the subject.
The identification of the location was seen as particularly problematic, officials said, because Russia could use that detail to help identify the US ally or intelligence capability involved. Officials said that the capability could be useful for other purposes, possibly providing intelligence on Russia's presence in Syria. Moscow and would be keenly interested in identifying that source and possibly disrupting it.
At a more fundamental level, the information wasn't the US' to provide to others. Under the rules of espionage, governments - and even individual agencies - are given significant control over whether and how the information they gather is disseminated even after it has been shared. Violating that practice undercuts trust considered essential to sharing secrets.
The officials declined to identify the ally, but said it is one that has previously voiced frustration with Washington's inability to safeguard sensitive information related to Iraq and Syria.
"If that partner learned we'd given this to Russia without their knowledge or asking first that is a blow to that relationship," the US official said.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/wor...-minister-and-ambassador-20170515-gw5jh1.html
"But other officials expressed concern with Trump's handling of sensitive information as well as his grasp of the potential consequences. Exposure of an intelligence stream that has provided critical insight into IS, they said, could hinder the US' and its allies' ability to detect future threats.
"It is all kind of shocking," said a former senior US official close to current administration officials. "Trump seems to be very reckless, and doesn't grasp the gravity of the things he's dealing with."
Most alarmingly, officials said, Trump revealed the city in IS territory where the US intelligence partner detected the threat.
The Washington Post is withholding most plot details, including the name of the city, at the urging of officials who warned that revealing them would jeopardise important intelligence capabilities.
"Everyone knows this stream is very sensitive and the idea of sharing it at this level of granularity with the Russians is troubling," said a former senior US counter-terrorism official who also worked closely with members of the Trump national security team. He and others spoke on condition of anonymity, citing the sensitivity of the subject.
The identification of the location was seen as particularly problematic, officials said, because Russia could use that detail to help identify the US ally or intelligence capability involved. Officials said that the capability could be useful for other purposes, possibly providing intelligence on Russia's presence in Syria. Moscow and would be keenly interested in identifying that source and possibly disrupting it.
At a more fundamental level, the information wasn't the US' to provide to others. Under the rules of espionage, governments - and even individual agencies - are given significant control over whether and how the information they gather is disseminated even after it has been shared. Violating that practice undercuts trust considered essential to sharing secrets.
The officials declined to identify the ally, but said it is one that has previously voiced frustration with Washington's inability to safeguard sensitive information related to Iraq and Syria.
"If that partner learned we'd given this to Russia without their knowledge or asking first that is a blow to that relationship," the US official said.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/wor...-minister-and-ambassador-20170515-gw5jh1.html
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Trumps first foreign tour. What a special time. Unforgettable...
I thought the original picture of his meeting with Pope Francis was the most priceless pic of all
https://twitter.com/Alser82/status/867471648127156224/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw&ref_url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/25/donald-trump-meets-pope-francis-22-funniest-memes/
I thought the original picture of his meeting with Pope Francis was the most priceless pic of all
https://twitter.com/Alser82/status/867471648127156224/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw&ref_url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/25/donald-trump-meets-pope-francis-22-funniest-memes/
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One good thing about Trump, is he is shaking up mediocrity, we have wallowed around going nowhere for 20 years.
The rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer, the middle class have been decimated by once in a lifetime economic shocks every 10 years.
So even if all he does is rattle the can, at least it isn't more of the same.IMO
The rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer, the middle class have been decimated by once in a lifetime economic shocks every 10 years.
So even if all he does is rattle the can, at least it isn't more of the same.IMO
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Priceless.
You seen that video of the Pope smiling at Trump's wife then turn cold the moment he see Trump? The Pope's worst day, ever.
This one's not photoshopped. Children of the Corn stuff.
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It's worst of the same though.
He really just doesn't hide the fact that he's screwing the poor and the working class [same thing?]. With smart guys like Clinton and Obama, they do the same thing but hide it better. That and they did try to give some tiny crumbs. Trump just kind of tell the poor to go screw themselves, to their face.
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