TyroneGoldstein posted:

This speech is nonsense but hes really effective at delivering it. If he stays fully on script this could be a dangerous turning point.

Giggy posted:

Forever war with honor.

TyroneGoldstein posted:

This speech is nonsense but hes really effective at delivering it. If he stays fully on script this could be a dangerous turning point.

Solkanar512 posted:

Wait, so Pakistan is going to become a territory? That's whole "economic development to defray costs" sounded suspicious as gently caress.

TyroneGoldstein posted:

This speech is nonsense but hes really effective at delivering it. If he stays fully on script this could be a dangerous turning point.

TyroneGoldstein posted:

This speech is nonsense but hes really effective at delivering it. If he stays fully on script this could be a dangerous turning point.

Covok posted:

Is pro-India good or bad?

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

BlueberryCanary posted:

Historically, this has not been the case. Whenever Trump starts to pivot or turn things around, he actually does a full pirouette and falls flat on his face.

Red posted:

Why was Trump clapping?

Covok posted:

Is pro-India good or bad?

Grapplejack posted:

I'm like 80% sure Pakistan doesn't have ICBMs, only short range missiles (because their only target is India).

Red posted:

Why was Trump clapping?

cargo cult posted:

Its an insanely complicated question when you consider how big a change this would be to American fopo for the last thirty or forty years

Pellisworth posted:

Okay so let me summarize the content of this speech:

-We're not going to set any timelines or tell you what we're doing in these wars, withdrawal will be based on conditions on the ground. So, forever war!
-Pakistan is harboring terrorists and is naughty.
-We're going to keep loving things up in South Asia. Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India are going to pay for it.

quote:

The guided tour of Arpaio's legend has officially begun. Here, next to his desk, is the hand-painted sign of draconian rules for Tent City, the infamous jail he set up 20 years ago, in which some 2,000 inmates live under canvas tarps in the desert, forced to wear pink underwear beneath their black-and-white-striped uniforms while cracking rocks in the stifling heat. HARD LABOR, the sign reads. NO GIRLIE MAGAZINES!
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In Arpaio’s jails, “female Latino LEP prisoners have been denied basic sanitary items. In some instances, female Latino LEP prisoners have been forced to remain with sheets or pants soiled from menstruation because of MCSO’s failure to ensure that detention officers provide language assistance in such circumstances.”
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Arizona is housing prisoners in a tent city and it’s 117 degrees

Jail officials also said that inmates could purchase sunblock from the facility’s vending machine.
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He likened Tent City to concentration camps

https://youtu.be/D7reZOp2Qco

When asked about the comment by the Guardian in July, Arpaio brushed it off as a joke. “But even if it was a concentration camp, what difference does it make? I still survived. I still kept getting re-elected,” he said.

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I buy a thermometer gadget to prove to the media that I'm not lying," he explained. "There's a trick. If you push that [thermometer] up higher ... you pick up 20 degrees."

Most notably, Arpaio makes inmates wear pink underwear, what he sees as his lifelong achievement.

Once you’re gone, you’re dead and buried,” Arpaio reflected. “Me, I give them 48 hours to remember me, and they’re going to do it because of the pink underwear.”
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Arpaio allows the television in the cafeteria to only play ESPN2, the Food Channel (“so they can see the good food they’re missing on the outside,” Jones said) and the Weather Channel (“Joe wants them to see how hot it’s going to be”).

BlueberryCanary posted:

Historically, this has not been the case. Whenever Trump starts to pivot or turn things around, he actually does a full pirouette and falls flat on his face.

Red posted:

Why was Trump clapping?

Lightning Lord posted:

I didn't watch the speech, did he mention India and China's aggression towards each other?

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Lightning Lord posted:

I didn't watch the speech, did he mention India and China's aggression towards each other?

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Paul Ryan townhall starting now

Covok posted:

Is pro-India good or bad?

TyroneGoldstein posted:

I know we're all expecting this, but the big question is what happens if he doesn't. We're so used to him loving up constantly that we assume it, but what if jettisoning Bannon really was the key to calming the entire gameshow. I'm not in panic mode, per se, I'm just trying to think about the angles. I mean, the most dangerous loving thing is if his poo poo addled brain really does properly lock on to subtlety.

And that's not even beginning to touch the crazy shifts in how we approach geopolitics that he just tabled.

TyroneGoldstein posted:

I know we're all expecting this, but the big question is what happens if he doesn't. We're so used to him loving up constantly that we assume it, but what if jettisoning Bannon really was the key to calming the entire gameshow.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Paul Ryan townhall starting now