October 2019 Current Events: Jim Inhofe is an infected pore on the ass of humanity

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Ayn Marx: Dec 21, 2012

FAUXTON posted:

so uh

'bout those crimes

E: also lol that they're using the Agency font from Freelancer.

Is you taking notes on a criminal loving conspiracy?

# ? Oct 5, 2019 11:53

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# ? May 20, 2024 16:47

Hot Karl Marx: Mar 16, 2009; Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

Hmm seems troubling

https://twitter.com/AJENews/status/1180438963896619013?s=19

# ? Oct 5, 2019 12:07

Bored As Fuck: Jan 1, 2006; Can't post for 2 hours!; Fun Shoe

Watch Trump gently caress this up and bend over backwards like the spineless little oval office he is, abandoning our Kurdish and Arab SDF allies, proving to people YET loving AGAIN that if you trust the US to have your backs, we will for a time, until it is not convenient for us.

The Kurds deserve their own loving country.

And lol @ abandoning them now, especially when ISIS is growing and rebuilding its insurgency, and has taken over territory again in Syria and Iraq. Source:

http://www.understandingwar.org/report/isiss-second-comeback-assessing-next-isis-insurgency

quote:

ISIS'S SECOND COMEBACK: ASSESSING THE NEXT ISIS INSURGENCY
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) is not defeated despite the loss of the territory it claimed as its so-called ‘Caliphate’ in Iraq and Syria. It is stronger today than its predecessor Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) was in 2011, when the U.S. withdrew from Iraq. AQI had around 700-1000 fighters then. ISIS had as many as 30,000 fighters in Iraq and Syria in August 2018 according to a Defense Intelligence Agency estimate. ISIS built from the small remnant left in 2011 an army large enough to recapture Fallujah, Mosul, and other cities in Iraq and dominate much of eastern Syria in only three years. It will recover much faster and to a much more dangerous level from the far larger force it still has today.

The slow-motion reduction of ISIS’s territory and strength initiated by President Obama and continued by President Trump gave the group plenty of time to plan and prepare for the next phase of the war. It had a plan to recover ready before the “caliphate” fell and has been executing it during the anti-ISIS campaign conducted by the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and the U.S.-Led Anti-ISIS Coalition. ISIS deliberately withdrew and relocated many of its fighters and their families from Mosul, Raqqa, and other important cities into new and old support zones in Iraq and Syria. ISIS’s forces are now dispersed across both countries and are waging a capable insurgency. ISIS retained a global finance network that funded its transition back to an insurgency and managed to preserve sufficient weapons and other supplies in tunnel systems and other support zones in order to equip its regenerated insurgent force.

ISIS began reconstituting key capabilities in late 2018 that will enable it to wage an even more aggressive insurgency in coming months. ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi asserted greater operational control over his forces in Iraq and Syria in June 2018 and is reconstituting command-and-control structures. ISIS is also reconstituting its capability to detonate waves of Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (VBIEDs) across Iraq and Syria - the signature of its early campaigns leading up to the conquest of Fallujah and Mosul in 2014. It has already detonated VBIEDs in liberated cities including Mosul and Raqqa. ISIS also resumed standardized media releases in July 2018, indicating that it has rebuilt key media capabilities.

ISIS’s insurgency will grow because areas it has lost in Iraq and Syria are still neither stable nor secure. In Iraq, ISIS has systematically eliminated village leaders and civilians who cooperated with anti-ISIS forces. Its goal is to weaken resistance and to fuel the population’s distrust of the Government of Iraq. It has re-imposed taxes on local populations in its historical support zones, displacing civilians and de facto controlling small pockets of terrain in Iraq. In Syria, ISIS is waging a three-front insurgency against the U.S.-backed SDF, the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Its campaign degrades governance structures and halts reconstruction efforts, contributing to the perpetuation of state failure and violence in the Syrian Civil War.

ISIS will seek to reestablish territorial control in Iraq and in Syria. It will likely succeed if the U.S. withdraws. American support on the ground in Syria coheres disparate SDF elements that would almost certainly fracture if the U.S. leaves. The U.S. presence in Eastern Syria enables vital intelligence and air operations that could not be replaced if America withdrew. It also deters Turkey from invading northeastern Syria, which would at minimum cause the SDF to pull forces away from the Middle Euphrates River Valley to defend against Turkey in the north, creating even more space in which ISIS could re-emerge. A strong and capable SDF in eastern Syria is also necessary to prevent ISIS from using Syria as a base to fuel its campaign in Iraq.

ISIS’s next breakout success could be even more devastating than its 2014 campaign. Its external provinces outside Iraq and Syria are contributing resources to its insurgency in those countries while giving the organization renewed global momentum. ISIS declared the start of a new global campaign called the ‘Battle of Attrition’ on May 31, 2019. Its propaganda instructed its forces to seize terrain temporarily as a way to attrite their opponents. ISIS’s ability to campaign simultaneously abroad and in Iraq and Syria gives it new opportunities. Its successful reconstitution of a physical caliphate in Iraq and Syria would produce new waves of ISIS attacks in Europe and dangerously legitimize ISIS’s narrative of inevitable long-term victory.

The U.S. is repeating a critical mistake by deprioritizing this effort at a pivotal moment when our gains are at their most fragile. The U.S. must take immediate steps to dampen ISIS’s resurgence in Iraq and Syria, including halting and reversing America’s ongoing withdrawal from Syria. More American support to the SDF will be necessary. American partners and allies should contribute, but it must recognize that it is the only country with both the ability and moral clarity to lead this effort. The U.S. should also prioritize and expand humanitarian aid operations to help dampen the appeal of ISIS, especially among the large traumatized underage population living in displacement camps across the Middle East. These actions can help reduce the rate and scale of ISIS’s regrowth and provide the U.S. the time required to develop a more robust strategy truly to defeat ISIS and establish the conditions that will prevent another reconstitution.

Turkey will oppose increased American support to the SDF. The U.S. should focus its efforts on increasing the strength and capability of Arab SDF elements, which do not threaten Turkey as much as the Kurdish elements. Supporting these Arab groups will enable the U.S. to better combat ISIS’s insurgency, which is strongest in Arab areas, and will also decrease the SDF’s overall reliance on the Kurdish forces that Turkey opposes. The U.S. should condition increased support to the SDF on reforms of its behavior to ensure that it represents both Arabs and Kurds regardless of whether or not they support the political ideology of the SDF. These steps alone will not appease Turkey but they can reduce the likelihood that continued American efforts to find a durable resolution to the problem of ISIS in Iraq and Syria lead to increased tensions and the risk of conflict.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 12:20

Nostalgia4Butts: Jun 1, 2006; WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Bored As gently caress posted:

The Kurds deserve their own loving country.

this x100000000

# ? Oct 5, 2019 13:29

Mr. Nice!: Oct 13, 2005; c-spam cannot afford

Trump is trumping on Mitt Romney this morning calling him a loser, suck up, and an rear end.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 15:21

Mr. Nice!: Oct 13, 2005; c-spam cannot afford

Excuse me, i forgot the double hyphen. The president called Mitt Romney an �rear end.�

# ? Oct 5, 2019 15:22

BigDave: Jul 14, 2009; Taste the High Country

https://twitter.com/RealPressSecBot/status/1180481884947529728
https://twitter.com/RealPressSecBot/status/1180487069883174916
https://twitter.com/RealPressSecBot/status/1180484593213792256

# ? Oct 5, 2019 15:24

colachute: Mar 15, 2015

Mr. Nice! posted:

Excuse me, i forgot the double hyphen. The president called Mitt Romney an �rear end.�

I�m not reading his tweets but I would be willing to bet $5 that he capitalized rear end. Not because I�m certain but because there�s a legit 50/50 shot I�m right.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 15:25

Crab Dad: Dec 28, 2002; behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB

I�m sick of him calling the media the enemy of the people. That�s the language of petty tyrants.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 15:27

bird cooch: Jan 19, 2007

I'll get the pitchforks.

Oh, not yet?

# ? Oct 5, 2019 15:42

Mr. Nice!: Oct 13, 2005; c-spam cannot afford

colachute posted:

I�m not reading his tweets but I would be willing to bet $5 that he capitalized rear end. Not because I�m certain but because there�s a legit 50/50 shot I�m right.

He is a pompous �rear end� who has been fighting me from the beginning,

# ? Oct 5, 2019 15:48

bird food bathtub: Aug 9, 2003; College Slice

LingcodKilla posted:

I�m sick of him calling the media the enemy of the people. That�s the language of petty tyrants.

Pretty on-brand for him then I'd say.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 15:50

Crab Dad: Dec 28, 2002; behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB

bird cooch posted:

I'll get the pitchforks.

Oh, not yet?

Our revolution will be forks taped to brooms. Pitchforks are pretty rare these days.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 15:53

colachute: Mar 15, 2015

LingcodKilla posted:

Our revolution will be forks taped to brooms. Pitchforks are pretty rare these days.

Our revolution will be taking pictures of forks taped to brooms and posted on Instagram with the hashtag #ImReadyForTheRevolution before the fork gets put back in the silverware drawer.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 15:55

dubzee: Oct 23, 2008

LingcodKilla posted:

Our revolution will be forks taped to brooms. Pitchforks are pretty rare these days.

My GF is one of those 'crazy horse girls'. I assure you there are many barns with an assortment of pitchforks to be had.

Horse folks generally lean hard right tho soooooooo :smith:

# ? Oct 5, 2019 16:14

Crab Dad: Dec 28, 2002; behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB

dubzee posted:

My GF is one of those 'crazy horse girls'. I assure you there are many barns with an assortment of pitchforks to be had.

Horse folks generally lean hard right tho soooooooo

I�m not leaving my block, at furthest, to search for a pitchfork.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 16:15

dubzee: Oct 23, 2008

Surely you have a Harbor Freight in your hood.

e: LOL at China providing pitchforks for uprising

# ? Oct 5, 2019 16:18

bird cooch: Jan 19, 2007

I've got...3 good ones and a bent one from getting drunk sharpening it with a grinding wheel and then throwing it at a tree.

Farm grunt poo poo

# ? Oct 5, 2019 16:27

CRUSTY MINGE: Mar 30, 2011; Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Goddamn I miss doing dumb farm grunt poo poo.

Wait, I kinda do that poo poo now.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 17:11

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

dubzee posted:

Surely you have a Harbor Freight in your hood.

e: LOL at China providing pitchforks for uprising

Gonna be like the soviets providing aks to anyone right

# ? Oct 5, 2019 17:31

Mr. Bad Guy: Jun 28, 2006

Are those Statement By The President messages like, official correspondences? Like, he dictates them, and has them officially released? Is he using legit government communications channels when his tweets get too long and he can't be bothered to break them up?

# ? Oct 5, 2019 17:32

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

I just noticed the quotes. Does he not realize what putting quotes for emphasis means

# ? Oct 5, 2019 17:32

Defenestrategy: Oct 24, 2010

Mr. Bad Guy posted:

Are those Statement By The President messages like, official correspondences? Like, he dictates them, and has them officially released? Is he using legit government communications channels when his tweets get too long and he can't be bothered to break them up?

What made you think that tweeting from @POTUS vs @RealDonaldTrump isn't official correspondence from the office of the president?

# ? Oct 5, 2019 17:35

A Bad Poster: Sep 25, 2006; Seriously, shut the fuck up.

Mr. Bad Guy posted:

Are those Statement By The President messages like, official correspondences? Like, he dictates them, and has them officially released? Is he using legit government communications channels when his tweets get too long and he can't be bothered to break them up?

That Twitter account is just a bot that automatically takes Donny's tweets and formats them like official White House correspondence.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 17:36

MRC48B: Apr 2, 2012

Real Press Sec Bot is a joke twitter bot somebody ginned up when they realized that trump's tweets are technically Official Government Announcements.

It basically reformats every tweet he makes into that image and retweets them. Thats it.

It is valuable in that it keeps a record of everything trump has tweeted in office, even if he wants to delete or edit it later.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 17:43

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

MRC48B posted:

Real Press Sec Bot is a joke twitter bot somebody ginned up when they realized that trump's tweets are technically Official Government Announcements.

It basically reformats every tweet he makes into that image and retweets them. Thats it.

It is valuable in that it keeps a record of everything trump has tweeted in office, even if he wants to delete or edit it later.

I like it because you can view all his poo poo if you want without actually following him.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 18:02

BigDave: Jul 14, 2009; Taste the High Country

That Works posted:

I like it because you can view all his poo poo if you want without actually following him.

This.

Speaking of, what's ol' Rapey McTreason up to now?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1180245134363025415
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1180524614268653568
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1180532150053085185
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1180521871223246848

I don't know what any of this means.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 19:18

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

It means trump is the good one

# ? Oct 5, 2019 19:30

Riot Carol Danvers: Jul 30, 2004; It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

It means fox is actively trying to destroy our country? And our smooth brained pissy baby president is throwing a tantrum again

# ? Oct 5, 2019 19:31

BigDave: Jul 14, 2009; Taste the High Country

WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:

It means fox is actively trying to destroy our country? And our smooth brained pissy baby president is throwing a tantrum again

Is he though? This seems more like Alzheimer's based rage.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 19:40

Fister Roboto: Feb 21, 2008

Can't wait for the Dems to drop the impeachment process because Trump and Fox screamed their narrative loud enough to make it reality.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 19:45

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

Pitchforks are too long and unweildy to be effective outside of organized shield wall formations, t-handled seed forks are where it's at for individual melee.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 19:53

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1180509820320915457?s=19

# ? Oct 5, 2019 19:55

Hot Karl Marx: Mar 16, 2009; Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

Milo and POTUS posted:

https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1180509820320915457?s=19

two perverts

# ? Oct 5, 2019 19:58

Cugel the Clever: Apr 5, 2009; I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA

poo poo, he's on to our time travel plot.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1180551689818050562?s=09

# ? Oct 5, 2019 20:02

colachute: Mar 15, 2015

Cugel the Clever posted:

poo poo, he's on to our time travel plot.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1180551689818050562?s=09

Lol I know you are but what am I

# ? Oct 5, 2019 20:03

BigDave: Jul 14, 2009; Taste the High Country

Cugel the Clever posted:

poo poo, he's on to our time travel plot.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1180551689818050562?s=09

Aw crap who told him?!

Great, now I have to go back and kill John McCain again.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 20:05

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

https://twitter.com/0ddette/status/...ingawful.com%2F

# ? Oct 5, 2019 20:14

Hot Karl Marx: Mar 16, 2009; Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

shame on an IGA posted:

https://twitter.com/0ddette/status/...ingawful.com%2F

Dershowitz???

# ? Oct 5, 2019 20:16

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Wasabi the J: Jan 23, 2008; MOM WAS RIGHT

shame on an IGA posted:

https://twitter.com/0ddette/status/...ingawful.com%2F

https://media1.giphy.com/media/srTYyZ1BjBtGU/giphy.mp4?cid=e1bb72ffb6d84b0a1c9529c65f2b0475386b869b6f6af80c&rid=giphy.mp4

# ? Oct 5, 2019 20:19

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