https://twitter.com/KimStrassel/status/1180595091288686610

Quote :

"Impeachment insanity. The Kavanaugh hit. FBI/DOJ abuse of power. The Mueller mess. Leaks. Media malpractice. In just 10 days my book is out, which puts the last three years of damage in context, and frames up 2020 election. Get yours now! "

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1538701774/





[Edited on October 8, 2019 at 6:53 AM. Reason : trump retweets her a lot, apparently]

10/8/2019 6:52:58 AM

People brought up in their 20s through rightwing think tanks or the WSJ opinion page are a scourge.

Strassel and Bret Stephens are the worst.

10/8/2019 7:35:01 AM

Mostly because they've turned Reagan into an untouchable god.

10/8/2019 10:35:20 AM

Trump is Reagan 2.0. They are cutting food stamps right now but the media couldn't care less because democrats would rather split hairs over a phone call than worry with such plebeian matters.

10/8/2019 3:59:48 PM

10/8/2019 11:37:02 PM

Incoming destruction of Turkish economy??

10/9/2019 12:37:19 PM

Quote :

"“Now the Kurds are fighting for their land,” Trump told reporters during a press conference on Wednesday night. “They didn’t help us in the Second World War, they didn’t help us with Normandy, for example."

10/10/2019 9:38:00 AM

The only good thing about these insane statements is learning stuff like some Kurds did fight in the British army during WW2.

10/10/2019 9:43:00 AM

Pretty sure the president mimicked a Peter Strozk orgasm last night at his rally

10/11/2019 9:41:41 AM

https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/1182677681139339264?s=21

Wait. What?

10/11/2019 11:38:23 AM

The entire US government is working to service Trump's personal whims, there's no plan or strategy

10/11/2019 11:42:02 AM

US government has been an arm of multinational corporations for half a century now. It's just a convenience that they have a radical corporatist as president.

10/11/2019 12:02:57 PM

Isn't having U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia one of the reasons we were attacked on 9/11?

10/11/2019 12:56:19 PM

Wonder how much Saudi Arabia is paying Kushner for this

Really incredible how blatant the corruption is here

10/11/2019 1:24:03 PM

Trump’s Crazy Syria Move Will Wipe Out America’s Allies and Set Up a Big ISIS Comeback
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-just-opened-the-way-for-turkey-to-invade-syriaand-isis-to-make-a-big-comeback

10/12/2019 2:02:28 AM

Saw where the leader of the Kurds we’re working with said he’ll have to ask Russia for help against Turkey If US Abandons them.

So it looks like the goal might be to carve up Syria between Saudi, Turkey, and Russia maybe?

10/12/2019 3:05:08 PM

Whose goal?

I don't think there's a plan here.

10/12/2019 4:07:13 PM

How dare this president bring out troops out of quagmire and allow the regional powers to handle a regional issue on the other side of the globe. This might do permanent damage to our ability to wage war around the world. Our reputation as a willing intervener is forever tarnished. So unAmerican.

10/14/2019 1:13:45 AM

^^

10/14/2019 2:28:28 AM

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-syria-mistake-thought-turkey-bluffed-invasion-axios-2019-10

Trump supposedly thought turkey was bluffing and felt Erdogan would get blamed instead of trump. Erdogan was surprised trump didn’t ask for anything in return for letting turkey invade.

^^except 2000 troops are being added to Saudi for no good reason while the gop continues to increase defense spending. We’re getting the worst of all world— not enough money spent on domestic issues, no leverage or credibly with potential allies, former allies being cleansed, and a huge number of new, well trained and armed people who hate us.

10/14/2019 12:58:01 PM

This seems worth posting here.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/14/isis-prisoners-are-escaping-from-camps-in-syria-amid-turkish-offensive.html

Quote :

"Islamic State fighters are seizing a chance to escape and regroup as U.S.-allied Kurdish forces turn their attention from guarding thousands of captive extremists to defending themselves from Turkey's assault. More than 800 suspected IS detainees escaped the Ayn Issa camp in northern Syria on Sunday, Kurdish forces said in a statement, five days into Turkey's military incursion into norther Syria. Jelal Ayaf, co-chair of Ayn Issa camp, told local media that 859 people 'successfully escaped' the section of the camp holding foreign nationals. He also said attacks were already being carried out by 'sleeper cells' that had emerged from inside the camp, which holds IS prisoners, internally displaced persons and families or affiliates of IS fighters. While some escapees could be recaptured, he described the situation in the camp as 'very volatile.'"

10/14/2019 4:56:47 PM

Trump has already blamed the Kurds for ISIS breakouts.

10/14/2019 5:24:26 PM

Sanctions on turkey and talks of removing nuclear weapons stationed in turkey.

Seems like the disaster in Syria was fomented as a cover to start dismantling nato maybe?

10/14/2019 7:14:14 PM

No.

You mentioned goals earlier and now you're talking about fomenting disaster. Who do you think is orchestrating all this?

10/14/2019 7:23:15 PM

Thinking "Trump has a plan" will always lead you down a confusing path

10/14/2019 7:32:16 PM

the kids clearly let isis free on purpose though. Obvious game theory retaliatory step.

10/14/2019 8:02:07 PM

Certainly seems likely this is all just sporadic actions by trump

But hard to really accept this

Kushner is supposed to be in charge of all this and he’s already blundered several things so i could see trump following his advice here
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/06/25/kushner-launches-middle-east-peace-plan/

Remember when Presidents consulted with career experts instead of their son in laws on major foreign policy plans?

10/14/2019 10:08:32 PM

I did not mean to type kids instead of kurds

10/14/2019 10:18:25 PM

Former marine on my Facebook who also is an immigrant is very pissed about the trump and Syria thing. First time I’ve ever seen this person post anything political. I know military people tend to be jaded about this kind of thing but this person was almost having a crisis realizing they weren’t fighting for their country but instead fighting to protect the whims of wealthy white billionaires. They took comfort in the fact that they were also fighting for their fellow soldiers they served with.

But i have to imagine lots of other military people are coming to the same realization when the President says out loud he’s sending people to possibly die in Saudi Arabia and brags they’re paying us good money for it.

10/14/2019 10:25:29 PM

Quote :

"I know military people tend to be jaded about this kind of thing"

You obviously don't know many marines, or military of any kind for that matter. They aren't jaded to politicians, they just find a higher calling to serve their country and protect their buddies fighting with them. In general, Marines actually see pretty clearly when a politician is bullshitting them.

Quote :

"Thinking "Trump has a plan" will always lead you down a confusing path"

This should be the slogan for whoever gets the nomination for the Ds.

10/14/2019 10:42:48 PM

Quote :

"Remember when Presidents consulted with career experts instead of their son in laws on major foreign policy plans?"

Come on man, Kushner is definitely qualified to settle 2,000 year old land-dispute!

10/15/2019 4:27:04 AM

Quote :

"In general, Marines actually see pretty clearly when a politician is bullshitting them."

apparently not enough to vote to keep the most dangerous ones out of office though

10/15/2019 9:02:18 AM

He doesn't need a plan for Syria. He's the president of the United States, not Syria.

Quote :

"They aren't jaded to politicians, they just find a higher calling to serve their country"

Then they are either idiots, pieces of shit, or both. The US marines haven't served our country since the civil war.

10/15/2019 4:07:59 PM

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/trump-fool-us-middle-east/600010/

I didn’t know this but they’ve added 14000 more troops to the Mid East since May

Seems like a huge buildup doesn’t it ?

10/15/2019 6:11:22 PM

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-50064595

I don't understand why this has been allowed to become a thing.

I don't understand why the National Security Advisor is personally involved.

I don't understand why the President is personally involved.

I really don't understand why Trump is holding "Would you like to meet the killer?" ambush meetings at the White House.

10/16/2019 11:14:24 AM

Quote :

"President Trump is defending his decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria, saying,"They have a problem at the border; it's not our border," and that "they've got a lot of sand over there. There's a lot of sand they can play with." He said the Kurds, longtime U.S. allies, are "much safer right now," and added, "They're not angels.""

10/16/2019 1:10:07 PM

Also said the PKK are worse than ISIS.

Erdogan talking points. How long until he arrests and hands over Enes Kanter? Two weeks?

10/16/2019 1:26:34 PM

I saw this referenced yesterday, from the January 2017 DNI report assessing Russian activities and intentions in recent U.S. elections:

Quote :

"Pro-Kremlin proxy Vladimir Zhirinovskiy, leader of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, proclaimed just before the election that if President-elect Trump won, Russia would 'drink champagne' in anticipation of being able to advance its positions on Syria and Ukraine."

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf

10/16/2019 2:50:55 PM

This has to be fake, right?
https://twitter.com/trish_regan/status/1184559361638748161?s=09

10/16/2019 5:05:35 PM

At least he spelled humane right???

10/16/2019 5:54:08 PM

I feel like "Trump tells Erdogan 'Don't be a tough guy!'" is burying the lede.

10/16/2019 7:18:05 PM

Trump’s holding it up as “proof” he didn’t give a “green light.”

10/16/2019 7:18:16 PM

[Edited on October 16, 2019 at 7:22 PM. Reason : .]

10/16/2019 7:21:09 PM

Quote :

"Trump claims Turkish incursion into Syria 'has nothing to do with us' "

Best foreign policy quote by a president in my lifetime and it should be so obvious

Just to own the libz

the center can't meme

[Edited on October 16, 2019 at 8:22 PM. Reason : operations in syria were illegal anyway]

10/16/2019 8:12:28 PM

Nihilist or right winger?

Basically indistinguishable at this point.

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1184634725677314050?s=21

Lol, in 2019. Still. How? Why?

[Edited on October 16, 2019 at 9:14 PM. Reason : X]

10/16/2019 9:10:01 PM

What's the point? Is he trying to bring it back up in some hopes that it will detract from everything else?

10/16/2019 9:37:50 PM

last meme until Saturday


[Edited on October 16, 2019 at 9:43 PM. Reason : cuomo is losing his shit right now that russians are in our former base. he's literally in 1980]

10/16/2019 9:39:19 PM

Quote :

"We're confident, and we have a great -- a great air base there, a very powerful air base. That air base alone can take anyplace. It's a large, powerful air base,"

In regards to our cold war era nukes in Turkey.

10/16/2019 9:41:48 PM

We're bombing our own military bases in Turkey that we hastily withdrew from, so the russians and turkey and isis can't use them...

10/17/2019 1:20:32 AM

In which the President admits to being a Democrat all along:

Quote :

" Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump I am the only person who can fight for the safety of our troops & bring them home from the ridiculous & costly Endless Wars, and be scorned. Democrats always liked that position, until I took it. Democrats always liked Walls, until I built them. Do you see what’s happening here?"

10/17/2019 10:47:09 AM