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Mustached Demon posted:Why not? Many people have done face turns. Okay, but even if he does, so what? It's republicans. He could show them videos of Trump pissing on hookers while sucking Putin's cock, and they'd just shrug and call it fake news.
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KKKLIP ART posted:What a shameful font
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KKKLIP ART posted:What a shameful font But it's not Comic Sans?
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Lote posted:No deepwater ports. There is no way for the US to fix this. As in we need diplomats and a functioning state department to fix this problem, and they don't exist. The US an enormous airlift capacity though. They probably could stave off starvation if they were so inclined
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Jun 7, 2017 04:42
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I get that KSA has a very limited ability to project military power, but those are some really warlike demands. I think Saudi, the UAE, Jordan, and loving Egypt could scrape together enough military competence to take over an isolated, neighboring city-state if it came down to it. They better be quick, though, before Iran jumps in.
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Jun 7, 2017 04:43
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Nothus posted:The Saudis have done all kinds of dumb stuff in the region to force their hegemony. The US should be using it's leverage to get the Saudis to back off of a key ally, but loving dumbfuck Trump decided to go all-in dogpiling on Qatar to help his new Saudi BFFs. It worse than just that. The entire point of having a US base in your country is for the protection it gives you. If the US rolls over for KSA and lets Qatar go down one of the foundations of international politics is removed.
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Also, Tillerson someone who's dealt with both these countries as head of ExxonMobile has pretty much no contact with Trump . I wonder what kind of phone calls Tillerson is getting right now.
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Mustached Demon posted:Why not? Many people have done face turns. Comey's probably gonna just nail Rick Steiner with a chair and run off with Scott, flashing nWo signs all the way to the back.
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Jun 7, 2017 04:44
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Petr posted:Okay, but even if he does, so what? It's republicans. He could show them videos of Trump pissing on hookers while sucking Putin's cock, and they'd just shrug and call it fake news. Ah, I see. "Nothing matters"? Hah, that is a really funny observation that no one has had before.
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Tir McDohl posted:Ah, I see. "Nothing matters"? Hah, that is a really funny observation that no one has had before. This is the new post your map.
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Petr posted:Okay, but even if he does, so what? It's republicans. He could show them videos of Trump pissing on hookers while sucking Putin's cock, and they'd just shrug and call it fake news. McCain being deeply troubled aside, the deeper this investigation goes the longer it takes. The longer it takes the less likely the dumbass electorate of this god forsaken poo poo stain of a country will forget to go slam pick -D.
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Rigel posted:Woah, Kansas finally reached the breaking point. I guess it takes literally years of ceaseless suffering, including years of draconian cuts to education, for Republicans to admit that enormous tax cuts don't bring prosperity. Hopefully the tax money that comes in will go to reconstructing the nuclear wasteland that is Kansas public education.
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Petr posted:This is the new post your map. Fair point, we should all be hopeless nihilists.
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Xae posted:It worse than just that. Absolutely right. We're loving amoral ghouls, but we stick by our allies, and Trump is loving that all up.
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Delthalaz posted:I get that KSA has a very limited ability to project military power, but those are some really warlike demands. I think Saudi, the UAE, Jordan, and loving Egypt could scrape together enough military competence to take over an isolated, neighboring city-state if it came down to it. They better be quick, though, before Iran jumps in. It's not that KSA is incapable of attacking Qatar, it's that Qatar has no military worth talking about and no real ability to resist. A war doesn't make sense because the Saudis can just make demands and get them, but if we're at that stage then things are seriously pretty hosed up.
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Paradoxish posted:It's not that KSA is incapable of attacking Qatar, it's that Qatar has no military worth talking about and no real ability to resist. A war doesn't make sense because the Saudis can just make demands and get them, but if we're at that stage then things are seriously pretty hosed up. Reading those demands, how can Qatar accept and still pretend to be an independent state?
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Or Qatar says gently caress you and then everyone looks around sheepishly. You know because they have deep ties with the United States which has multiple military bases there one of which is the largest in the Middle East and any one with half a brain would not start poo poo with them for fear of accidentally killing US Soldiers.
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Hollismason posted:Or Qatar says gently caress you and then everyone looks around sheepishly. But Saudi can't afford to make demands and get all riled up only to back down without sacrificing massive credibility and looking ridiculous, a huge win for Iran. I don't see how this ends well following that list of demands.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Fair point, we should all be hopeless nihilists. We should be whatever reality calls for. If nothing is actually mattering, we have to recognize that.
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empty whippet box posted:How about you just tell us you fucks. gently caress them for having that and not releasing it if it isn't just bullshit propaganda. Yeah... gently caress them....  
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Hope I didn't miss someone already posting this, but...quote:President Trump’s son Eric Trump on Tuesday said Democrats are “not even people” to him after their obstruction of his father’s agenda. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/336683-eric-trump-dems-not-even-people Cutting healthcare of 23 million people makes you a compassionate human with a message, though. We deserve better than this! 
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theres a will theres moe posted:Does this mean in a hundred years there will be statues of Steve bannon all over Louisiana or is that inevitable anyway Nah, if there is another Civil War and the good guys win, we won't gently caress up reconstruction this time
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Hollismason posted:Or Qatar says gently caress you and then everyone looks around sheepishly. You know because they have deep ties with the United States which has multiple military bases there one of which is the largest in the Middle East and any one with half a brain would not start poo poo with them for fear of accidentally killing US Soldiers. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/872084870620520448 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/872086906804240384 I'd like to think that Tillerson or someone has a handle on the situation behind the scenes, but it doesn't look like we're going to bat for them publicly.
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Orchestrated Mess posted:Hope I didn't miss someone already posting this, but... His entire quote is standard republican projection. I believe he doesn't see democrats as people though.
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Rigel posted:All the evidence point to Comey being an idealistic naive moron, rather than being a partisan poo poo. He and Mueller once put up a united front and threatened GWB that they would both resign (Mueller was FBI director) and cause a political shitstorm if he did.... something I forget about. It was that GWB was trying to get a hospitalized and insanely sick John Ashcroft to sign off on a doc to override the DoJ ruling that the Warrantless Wiretap program was illegal.
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Paradoxish posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/872084870620520448 Tillerson is totally isolated from people in the State Department. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/04/rex-tillerson-state-department-bottleneck-239107 Whole things a total clusterfuck.
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Comey is a career spook and Trump publicly humiliated him and has poo poo all over the IC for months.
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The Glumslinger posted:Nah, if there is another Civil War and the good guys win, we won't gently caress up reconstruction this time
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He doesn't see anyone with an under seven figure net worth as people either.
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oldswitcheroo posted:He doesn't see anyone with an under seven figure net worth as people either. He's a Republican yes.
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awesmoe posted:please wait for sourcing before getting all fiesty The original source seems to be from here: https://twitter.com/SkyNewsArabia_B...y-confrontation https://twitter.com/rezahakbari/sta...y-confrontation
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Our Ambassador to Qatar is a career Foreign Services Officer Dana Shell Smith who was nominated by President Obama by the way. So yeah, she probably hasn't even talked with Trump. She said this on May 10th https://twitter.com/AmbDana/status/...-trump-in-tweet
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/06/polit...linkId=38431054 oh, this is mildly interesting. John McCain is not a member of the Senate intelligence committee (shouldn't he be? why isn't he?), but due to a weird quirk in the senate rules, he will also be questioning Comey on Thursday. Since he's chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, he can insist on being a non-voting member of the intelligence committee able to attend hearings. He doesn't usually do that, but he will for Thursday. I expect him to be alarmed and deeply concerned. This time he won't have to cast a vote that questions this status.
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Paradoxish posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/872084870620520448 Trump's actually backtracking (not publicly of course). He called the Saudis tonight to beg them not to gently caress everything up. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40182599
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Mantis42 posted:Comey is a career spook and Trump publicly humiliated him and has poo poo all over the IC for months. FBI is domestic law enforcement, not spooks/spies Kinda a blurry line at times tho
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Thats actually comforting. Enough serious people have told Trump that this was an extreme, epic fuckup that he's now forced to (privately to save face) get everyone to cool off. Unfortunately, the KSA may conclude that Trump will never admit to being wrong and invade anyway..... but thats also risky because Trump may immediately pivot to condemning KSA and refuse to acknowledge that he ever said anything negative about Qatar. So, they may have to back down to some settlement thats agreeable to everyone.
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If you find it comforting that international relations are now basically a coin toss then , yeah I guess that is comforting.
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Remember that report a little bit ago that Trump had gone underwater with veterans and service members? This exact issue is the thing that drives that. Many/most veterans have spent time interacting with locals overseas and have done so with much more tact and reverence for differences than the loving President has. Moreover, most have seen good and bad leadership. This stands out. Boon fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Jun 7, 2017 |
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Rigel posted:Thats actually comforting. Enough serious people have told Trump that this was an extreme, epic fuckup that he's now forced to (privately to save face) get everyone to cool off. At least they don't have 110 (320) billion dollars of US weapons.
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