Countdown Clock, Trumps Removal 'Starts'
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Quote:"The world is going to respect us again," Donald Trump promised in 2016 as he campaigned for the presidency, "Believe me." The world, he said, was "laughing at us," but that would change if he became president.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Cheney now on Ted's list of people he loves. Go figure.
lol
You're a fucking idiot AND a sellout. And you hate America.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Now the world has had a chance to watch America under President Trump and the signs of respect are impossible to find.
In fact, evidence that America's foes have lost respect for the world's only superpower are everywhere, and they are becoming more troubling with every passing day, raising the question of how safe America is at this pivotal moment in history.
Who's afraid of the United States? It turns out the ones who are scared of America are its friends, concerned about the reliability of Washington as an ally. As for America's enemies and rivals, they are sending unmistakable signals that they view Washington now as a pussycat that occasionally pretends to roar.
That's the result of Trump slathering praise on the world's worst dictators while mistreating America's closest allies.
Is it any wonder, then, that China and Russia are acting with brazen disregard for the US? After years of hearing Trump defend Russian President Vladimir Putin, take his word over that of his own security experts and disregard bipartisan warnings about Russia's threat, it now seems Putin's goons have been arranging to have American soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
Both Trump and Russia say the story is false, but new information is being continuously reported by multiple news organizations. Such an operation might have been too risky in Moscow's view under any other US president. But the Kremlin apparently didn't fear a strong reaction. It looks so far as if the downside did not materialize.
Beijing, too, is running roughshod over America's interests and America's friends, as if Washington simply did not exist; as if the world's most powerful country could be safely ignored.
China has decided to essentially ignore the commitment it made to the people of Hong Kong, to the United States, and to the rest of the world 23 years ago, when the UK transferred control to China.
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Bullshit. Everything you post is bullshit.
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Quote:You are so funny. Another 4 or 8 years of Trump and the Chinese and Russians will be moving into the White House where they can run America through their fat meaty puppet, Donald Trump. They kick his ass and he can't do a thing about it because they've got dirt, probably his income tax returns, that would cost Trump half of his fortune in back taxes and penalties.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Bullshit. Everything you post is bullshit.
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Even North Korea's Kim Jong Un is getting in the game, showing that everyone feels like they can threaten the United States and its allies without fear of consequences. The bloodthirsty dictator who co-starred with Trump in one of the most cringeworthy foreign policy melodramas of this administration, complete with exchange of "love letters," appears to be threatening the US with nuclear weapons. The state news agency just said that "the only option left," is to "counter nuke with nuke."
Turkey has been launching airstrikes threatening Yazidi civilians in northern Iraq, according to US officials, and it may be engaging in ethnic cleansing against Kurds in Syria. But it has nothing to fear from Trump.
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Oh. Glad I stayed up for another post not worth reading.
Go fuck yourself, buddy. 
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Quote:America's foes are worried that America might be under new management soon, so now is the time to act: to take over Hong Kong, to push the US out of Afghanistan. It makes for a combustible mixture, an increasingly desperate president who is willing to do almost anything to win votes and US rivals who are unafraid of America. It's a perilous time.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Oh. Glad I stayed up for another post not worth reading.
Go fuck yourself, buddy.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:not America
take over Hong Kong
Quote:not America
push the US out of Afghanistan
And let me add a few more to the list out of many.
Syria - not America
Iran - not America
Iraq - not America
Venezuela - not America
And for historic context there's this.
S Vietnam - not America
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Quote:You are right about Trump. He has decided that the U.S.A. does not need a world spanning military. The National Guard will be enough. Trump threatened late Tuesday to veto a $740 billion defense policy bill if it included bipartisan language mandating the removal of the names of Confederate leaders from military installations. In stark contrast, Senate Republicans signal to Trump to back down on defense bill veto threat. 1kiki, the GOP doesn't share Trump and your beliefs about Hong Kong, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Venezuela, Vietnam, etc. I think I know how this story will end: Trump signs the Defense bill, but most of the money is wasted because of ineptitude.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:not America
take over Hong KongQuote:not America
push the US out of Afghanistan
And let me add a few more to the list out of many.
Syria - not America
Iran - not America
Iraq - not America
Venezuela - not America
And for historic context there's this.
S Vietnam - not America
www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/republicans-signal-to-trump-to-back-d
own-on-defense-bill-veto-threat-over-renaming-confederate-bases/2020/07/01/488c36f4-bbcb-11ea-8cf5-9c1b8d7f84c6_story.html
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:America's foes are worried that America might be under new management soon, so now is the time to act: to take over Hong Kong, to push the US out of Afghanistan. It makes for a combustible mixture, an increasingly desperate president who is willing to do almost anything to win votes and US rivals who are unafraid of America. It's a perilous time.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Oh. Glad I stayed up for another post not worth reading.
Go fuck yourself, buddy.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Nobody in the world is concerned that there will be a change of management soon.
The only people who are buying into that delusion are people like you that live here.
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Quote:The rest of the world says Trump is full of bullshit, which is why his foreign policy failed.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody in the world is concerned that there will be a change of management soon.
The only people who are buying into that delusion are people like you that live here.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Every 20 years or so — the regularity is a little astonishing — Americans hold a serious debate about their place in the world. What, they ask, is going wrong? And how can it be fixed? The discussion, moreover, almost always starts the same way. Having extricated itself with some success from a costly war, the United States then embraces a scaled-down foreign policy, the better to avoid overcommitment. But when unexpected challenges arise, people start asking whether the new, more limited strategy is robust enough. Politicians and policy makers, scholars and experts, journalists and pundits, the public at large, even representatives of other governments (both friendly and less friendly) all take part in the back-and-forth. They want to know whether America, despite its decision to do less, should go back to doing more — and whether it can.
The reasons for doubt are remarkably similar from one period of discussion to the next. Some argue that the U.S. economy is no longer big enough to sustain a global role of the old kind, or that domestic problems should take priority. Others ask whether the public is ready for new exertions. The foreign-policy establishment may seem too divided, and a viable consensus too hard to reestablish. Many insist that big international problems no longer lend themselves to Washington’s solutions, least of all to military ones. American “leadership,” it is said, won’t work so well in our brave new world.
With minor variations, this is the foreign-policy debate that the country conducted in the 1950s, the 1970s, and the 1990s. Each version unfolds in its own way. The global turmoil of 2016 meant that nobody could be completely sure how this one was going to turn out.
We still don’t know. Trump won in 2016 by promising both to do more and less abroad. But he hasn't delivered because his foreign policy is incoherent.
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The stakes of Trump's tax return case couldn't be higher
As CNN legal analyst Elie Honig points out "In total, six different federal courts -- three district courts and three courts of appeals panels -- have heard these cases, and all six have ruled against Trump." Moreover, court cases stemming from corruption in the administration of Warren G. Harding -- known as the Teapot Dome scandal -- would seem to directly apply. A subsequent 1924 law states that the Treasury Secretary "shall furnish" such tax information requested by relevant congressional committee, which Trump's Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin refused to do, citing no "legitimate legislative purpose."
But there is a clear public and legislative interest in finding out whether Trump has hidden business dealings with the Russians, which might explain his strange but persistent reluctance to confront Vladimir Putin on clear matters of US national interest.
Before Trump's political career, his son Eric repeatedly bragged about being able to bypass American banks -- many of which refused to do business with the Trump organization -- because the company could get all the money it needed from Russia. In 2008, his son Don Jr. told a real estate conference "Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets ... we see a lot of money pouring in from Russia." And Reuters has reported that 63 Russians invested nearly $100 million in Trump buildings.
Russia has a notorious reputation for money laundering and two frequent destinations are luxury real estate and casinos -- both of which the Trump organization has operated in the past.
This is far from an academic concern. CNN has tallied no less than 25 times President Trump has been strangely soft on Russia -- from denying Moscow interfered in US elections to his benefit, to suggesting it could keep the conquered Ukrainian province of Crimea, to undermining Obama-era sanctions, to withdrawing US troops from Syria, to praising pro-Russian leaders in Europe, to railing against NATO.
www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/opinions/scotus-trump-tax-return-opinion-avlon/
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