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Old 04-10-2017, 02:58 PM   #921
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Everything points to him not having any type of plan around his actions. The press has asked him continuously very basic questions about the situation like: What was the purpose of the strike? Is this a one time warning or is the US pushing for a regime change? What if he does this again? Does the US prepare for a war footing? Is the US was prepared for the impacted the fight against ISIS and relationships with Russia. These were all asked and he had no answers for these. This points to a very short sighted knee-jerk reactionary approach that is not based on any sort of long term strategy otherwise we will just make the situation worse.

So what we know right now is the President is an egotist that thrives praise, we know he launched a completely unilateral strike without considering most of the consequence (trigger happy), it was almost completely ineffective in the goal of preventing the Assad regime from launching another attack and he just moved the Stennis carrier battle group to the Korean peninsula after more saber rattling from North Korea. That makes me very very nervous about the whole situation.

This is aside from the whole discussion on whether the strike was just a distraction from his Russian connections.
Yea, this is not a good example to make a negative comparison to Obama. Despite his coherent explanations, he could not cope with the Syrian situation and admitted as much in his September 2016 interview with Jake Tapper. When dealing with Russia, China, Iran and some of these other "bad actor" scenarios it is not conducive to show your cards.

Trump may be a buffoon but there are some very professional people like Mathis running this game.

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Not sure what would be the best place to put this, but... wow. Yeah, I'm not getting a dystopian police state vibe at all from that. Not at all.

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Not sure what would be the best place to put this, but... wow. Yeah, I'm not getting a dystopian police state vibe at all from that. Not at all.

Gonna be a lot of dishevelled doctors offices in Florida!
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A few days ago Breitbart had anywhere from 3-6 front page stories trashing Kushner. Today there are none, probably because Breitbart has been ####ed

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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.

Kushner had become a target of Breitbart News amid reports that he was feuding with Stephen Bannon, the news website's former executive chairman who is now the White House chief strategist.
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Donald Trump's travel to his private club in Florida has cost over an estimated $20 million in his first 80 days as president, putting the president on pace in his first year of office to surpass former President Barack Obama's spending on travel for his entire eight years.

The outsized spending on travel stands in stark relief to Trump's calls for belt tightening across the federal government and the fact that he regularly criticized Obama for costing the American taxpayer money every time he took a trip.

Given variations in each trip, estimating the security costs around a presidential trip is difficult. But a 2016 Government Accountability Office report about a four-day trip Obama took to Florida in 2013 -- one similar to Trump's trips -- found the total cost to the Secret Service and Coast Guard was $3.6 million.

To date, Trump has spent six weekends -- and a total of 21 days -- at Mar-A-Lago, his private Palm Beach club. The total estimated costs for those trips are around $21.6 million.
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A few days ago Breitbart had anywhere from 3-6 front page stories trashing Kushner. Today there are none, probably because Breitbart has been ####ed



http://www.businessinsider.com/breit...-bannon-2017-4
It's nice that they're focused on the important things.

Run the country? Nah. It's ALL about the ego. These people are sociopaths.
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for those of you worried about Trump not having a plan in Syria going forward. I think this quote shows how well he understands international issues and how well thought out his policies are.
haha what does this even mean?! It literally doesn't even make sense.

Who has the generals? The TV station? Or is he saying there are generals he listens to, in addition to TV stations? Why is he listening to TV stations so much?? Just bizarre.
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haha what does this even mean?! It literally doesn't even make sense.

Who has the generals? The TV station? Or is he saying there are generals he listens to, in addition to TV stations? Why is he listening to TV stations so much?? Just bizarre.
Trump has a long-standing habit of watching TV all day, according to several articles that came out in January when he first moved into the White House, and has refused to cut back since becoming POTUS. The MSNBCs and CNNs get former generals and the like on their panels, and that's all he's talking about.
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haha what does this even mean?! It literally doesn't even make sense.

Who has the generals? The TV station? Or is he saying there are generals he listens to, in addition to TV stations? Why is he listening to TV stations so much?? Just bizarre.
he is saying, that you have to be very articulate to be the president.
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Beavis confirms Ivanka more or less made the strikes happen. Trump cult is going to be ballistic at this, Ivanka and Jared First is trumping America First.

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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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North Korea is looking for trouble. If China decides to help, that would be great. If not, we will solve the problem without them! U.S.A.
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Didn't Spicey reference the 'world police' in his briefing just yesterday? Saying it's not something Trump would be doing?
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A Special Election In Kansas Could Signal 'Big League' Problems For GOP, Trump

http://www.npr.org/2017/04/11/523380...ntent=20170411

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Democrats need to pick up a net of 24 seats to regain the majority in the House. That's a tough task, especially considering the way districts were drawn after the 2010 elections to favor Republicans.
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Spicer with the all-time worst comment in a press briefing ever:

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OMG How the hell can they allow him to ever do another briefing after that?
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In a normal world that would certainly be that as far as his job security. Bannon loved it no doubt though.
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