Hope you are right. The mad man is setting the US back with his "our of touch with reality" policies.
Trump's AMERICA : 2018 (& world reaction )
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The people on Trump’s hit list aren’t enemies — they are witnesses
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/people-trumps-hit-list-arent-enemies-witnesses/
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/people-trumps-hit-list-arent-enemies-witnesses/
The US is getting weaker by the minute. It will take something extrodinary for them to re-gain their world prominence. The Chinese are passing them by and reclaiming their six millennia long position as most powerful nation on Earth.
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Yep, there's good signs for sure, Walter, but don't bury your head in the sand over the bad ones. Just try to stick to a line about half way between yours and Cliffy's extremes, you'd be right in the ball park.
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We've got Trump's greatest racist hits on an all new, "NOW That's What I Call Racist: Trump Edition."
We've got Trump's greatest racist hits on an all new, "NOW That's What I Call Racist: Trump Edition."
Why would there be any, it isn't like Trump has pulled back the war machine from trying to show they are the only world power. A 92? loss of the newest tomahawk missiles fire at military targets was followed by claims that 103/103 hit their target so don't sell your stocks in that particular company.
What happens inside the country or doesn't happen is hardly news at all as the Pentagon runs the place and they have other things that have their full attention, Trump admitted that before he even had signing authority.
What happens inside the country or doesn't happen is hardly news at all as the Pentagon runs the place and they have other things that have their full attention, Trump admitted that before he even had signing authority.
Yep, there's good signs for sure, Walter, but don't bury your head in the sand over the bad ones. Just try to stick to a line about half way between yours and Cliffy's extremes, you'd be right in the ball park.
I can't help you Walter (or Cliffy) if you are determined not to listen, you'll never 'grow'. Trump is basically like the rest of us with a few rough edges and a few stellar qualities. He's NOT a pope.
You're just as ridiculous at the one extreme as Walter is at the other. No one in the world is like either one of you depict.
Yes reading some posters you would think the great Satan himselfis leading the great Satan .I can't help you Walter (or Cliffy) if you are determined not to listen, you'll never 'grow'. Trump is basically like the rest of us with a few rough edges and a few stellar qualities. He's NOT a pope.
You're just as ridiculous at the one extreme as Walter is at the other. No one in the world is like either one of you depict.
Here you go, Dear.
https://www.vox.com/2017/5/25/15632614/trump-military-generals-syria-yemen-afghanistan
The US military is making many life-or-death decisions without input from the person who matters most: the president of the United States.
In Trump’s first months in office, the US conducted drone strikes in Yemen and a special operations raid where a Navy SEAL was killed, dropped the “mother of all bombs” in Afghanistan, and on Thursday struck Assad’s forces in Syria. What all of these military operations have in common is that none of them required approval from the commander in chief, Donald Trump.
Why? Because he doesn’t feel like his approvals are needed — and because his predecessor micromanaged the Pentagon to a dangerous degree.
Trump’s hands-off approach — allowing battlefield commanders to take daily decisions affecting US foreign policy and national security — is a major shift in the American way of war. The Pentagon now does not require the president’s sign-off when military commanders believe an action is necessary. That's potentially good news for generals who felt hamstrung by the Obama administration, but it carries clear risks for both Trump and the US.
“Conflict is a lot more complex” than it seems, according to former Navy Undersecretary Janine Davidson. “You can blow stuff up … but where do things end?”
For a president who came into office with an “America first” worldview, proclaiming on the White House website that the US does “not go abroad in search of enemies,” he has given the Pentagon free rein to go out and search — and destroy.
NBC’s Matt Lauer pressed him on the comment, and Trump’s response revealed his mindset: “I have great faith in the military, great faith in certain of the commanders.”
Trump also told Dickerson that “f we had the leadership, meaning the go-ahead, you could knock [ISIS] out fast.”
Trump wouldn’t have it any other way. Surrounded by “my generals,” as he calls Mattis and Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, both retired Marines, Trump prefers to pursue an “alpha male” foreign policy, as Seb Gorka, a White House national security aide, characterized the administration’s approach.
And why is that? Trump may paint himself as a tough guy, but he’d rather not be held responsible should anything go wrong.
“Total authorization” absolves Trump of blame
Trump seems to wrongly believe his “total authorization” stance would absolve him of any blame if something were to go wrong. President Harry Truman used to say the “buck stops here,” meaning all credit — good or bad — fell to him as the president.
That’s not how Trump sees it. One military action Trump did personally authorize, after military officials explained the plan to him, was a special operations raid in Yemen targeting an al-Qaeda leader on January 29. Twenty-three civilians were killed, including women and children, as well as Senior Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens, a US Navy SEAL.
The president took no responsibility for the casualty. Instead, he proclaimed “they lost Ryan,” laying blame at the feet of the troops charged with completing the mission. (He also claimed that the planning for the raid “started before I got here.” That’s true — the Obama administration planned it.)
Trump is trying to have it both ways. He takes credit for successes, like the bomb drop in Afghanistan, and he passes blame when things go badly, like in Yemen.
As Trump unleashes racial invective, most Republicans in Congress stay silent
��I��m not going there,�� one GOP senator said when asked about racially charged insults the president has directed toward African Americans and others. The studied avoidance reflects the reluctance of Republicans to confront some of Trump��s often divisive and inflammatory remarks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
Trump's erratic behaviour is getting more pronounced all the time.
If any other POTUS spent as much time producing vitriol on Twitter and golfing........... one can only imagine the screeching from the critics. Are folks just too afraid to admit that he is unstable?? He is far too angry & self centred to be objective about anything. Let alone RATIONAL. REASONABLE policy making. It seems that as long as the economy is doing ok......he can be as crazy as a lunatic Are folks so blinded by his wealth and MONEY ........that they would allow other areas of the gov policies deteriorate due to poor judgement and personal biases . The current US isolationism has changed the world dynamics and new forces are emerging as more influential America's collective sanity is being questioned.
��I��m not going there,�� one GOP senator said when asked about racially charged insults the president has directed toward African Americans and others. The studied avoidance reflects the reluctance of Republicans to confront some of Trump��s often divisive and inflammatory remarks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
Trump's erratic behaviour is getting more pronounced all the time.
If any other POTUS spent as much time producing vitriol on Twitter and golfing........... one can only imagine the screeching from the critics. Are folks just too afraid to admit that he is unstable?? He is far too angry & self centred to be objective about anything. Let alone RATIONAL. REASONABLE policy making. It seems that as long as the economy is doing ok......he can be as crazy as a lunatic Are folks so blinded by his wealth and MONEY ........that they would allow other areas of the gov policies deteriorate due to poor judgement and personal biases . The current US isolationism has changed the world dynamics and new forces are emerging as more influential America's collective sanity is being questioned.
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Yes......and in a moere "normal" situation....... that fact would be addressed. Any leader of any company that would demonstrate this kind of behaviour would have been refereed to Mental health services and given a leave of absence........ ASAP. Or asked to resign with recommendations for getting help.
The issue is no longer that he is unstable.(THAT is obvious).........the issue is that his behaviour is being rationalised, justified and "defended"........and that is a problem.