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Joementum posted:Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill would have had a drink together and solved the issue of interplanetary data transmissions. Why won't Obama lead?  The shrinking grey part is ISIL-controlled territory.  ISIL got their asses kicked in Anbar (Iraq) in the space of a couple days. https://twitter.com/IgnatiusPost/status/734114268941979648/photo/1 quote:In Syria today with Gen. Joe Votel, Centcom commander, who visited anti-ISIS fighters and US military advisers. http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/21/politics/top-u-s-commander-completes-day-long-secret-visit-to-syria/index.html http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/21/syria-us-commander-secret-visit-joseph-votel Guess what's happened after that (not-so-secret) visit:  https://twitter.com/selingirit/status/737977555412746240  https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/737988124433879040  That's right, we're knocking the hell out of ISIL all over the Euphrates. This is relevant to US politics because Raqqa, Manbij, and Fallujah are all most likely going to fall before November, and Hillary's going use these advances against ISIL to show that the US's foreign policy under Obama is working, that backing local ground forces with special forces and airstrikes works, and that she's going to continue what Obama's doing. And you know that she's following this poo poo very closely both because of her former job as Secretary of State and because she knows this is going to be her job in six months. Meanwhile, Trump's foreign policy advisers will still trying to be trying to explain the difference between Sunni and Shia, Hamas and Hezbollah, and Quds and Kurds to him. What I'm trying to say is that the first Trump vs Hillary debate is gonna be so much fun, Hillary's gonna turn Trump to paste. 
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zoux posted:Here's one in freshly released campaign ad form. On Terra Firma posted:Holy gently caress. I know there are people that will stand by him no matter what but I cannot believe for a second people wouldn't be phased by this. Hillary is under no compunction to hold back, and will make him look like the utterly clueless idiot he is on national television, and she will have fun doing it.
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If I'm my avatar, then apparently I have a self-loathing streak that's second to nobody and a psychologist's goldmine. Content, Trump has discovered the word "thugs": https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/739080401747120128 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/739082059348619264 This is not an auspicious development.
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Samurai Sanders posted:Did he say something about Ali other than calling him a great guy (and being called out for not wanting him in the country because of his religion)? And what has he said about Tianneman Square? emdash posted:crushing protestors with military forces is a-ok, maybe even cool and good Bulgaroctonus posted:Yeah, exactly. I don't gently caress around with Twitter, but surely someone will call him on this, just wondering if it's happened yet. http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/02/politics/hillary-clinton-attack-lines-donald-trump-foreign-policy/ quote:"He praised China for the Tiananmen Square massacre -- he said it showed strength. He said, 'You've got to give Kim Jong Un credit' for taking over North Korea -- something he did by murdering everyone he saw as a threat, including his own uncle, which Donald described gleefully, like he was recapping an action movie." That line was right before one of the greatest lines of the night: quote:"I will leave it to the psychiatrists to explain his affection for tyrants." 
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SSNeoman posted:Oh my god someone post some stupid poo poo about American politics please! Shimrra Jamaane posted:So now Trump is saying that Muslim judges can't be trusted not to be biased. Good news! Trump is still an absolute loving moron. Like I said, this is why I'm not worried about Hillary v Trump.
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https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/739845605703442432 My home state did something cool and good for once.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:lololol The debate where Trump is going to be trapped on stage with Hillary for two hours with no escape. The one where Hillary will be out for his blood. God I love politics sometimes. 
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climboutonalimb posted:Could you imagine the scotus nominee craziness if Obama had nominated a minority instead of Garland?
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GalacticAcid posted:The Village Voice has a long piece on two American leftists who went to Syria to join the Kurdish resistance. And in a crosspost from the Middle East thread:  The US has assisted the SDF (joint group of Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians, Turkmen, tribal groups like the Shammar, foreign volunteers like above, and anyone else who hates ISIL) in encircling Manbij in Syria, which has a population of ~100,000 people, making it a large ISIL stronghold. This advance started a week ago, and ISIL's basically done nothing but retreat the entire time. So yeah, the US's anti-ISIL strategy is going very well. You might say we're well on the way to "degrade, and ultimately destroy" ISIL. Hey, who said that line again?
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Dexo posted:People over exaggerate Hillary's aggressiveness, and warhawkishness Le Saboteur posted:Its either that or people understate Obama's hawkishness. I can't see her being much more hawkish on the world stage than he was. So in this case Hillary's probably just going to continue what Obama started, because Obama already did the "hawkish" part of establishing the base with rather flimsy international legality. fade5 fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Jun 8, 2016 |
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MariusLecter posted:https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/739965267501977600 Evil Fluffy posted:This just keeps getting better. Please take a pot shot at the Terminator, Donald, please.
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Mozi posted:That strikes me as fascist, somehow. Thaddius the Large posted:Equal parts Nazi and Cobra Commander, I'm on board
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UrbicaMortis posted:Better make way for the new generation of meme warriors, grandpa. BobTheJanitor posted:Just a general hyperbolic 'what you said was so bad that you should stop posting forever' sort of thing, but it was judged succinct and chuckle-worthy enough by enough people to become a meme, apparently. The twitter equivalent of Dr Cheeto posted:Turn on your monitor Rip_Van_Winkle posted:It's the twitter equivalent of saying "uninstall" when someone is bad at playing a video game
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theflyingorc posted:I am legitimately concerned that he might do some military action that escalates into a very large international war because he was just in a mood that day. This has been mentioned before, but it's a good reminder that thanks to the last ~15 years, the President pretty much has carte blanche to do whatever the gently caress they feel like with regards to foreign policy. And so would Trump. Shimrra Jamaane posted:If Trump's loss spurs an increase in violent right ring extremism the FBI will gleefully crush it. fade5 fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Jun 9, 2016 |
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I mean, would it have been too much for him just to say Radical Islam just to cut off all the inevitable faux outrage over him not doing so? Honest question. Obama is doing exactly the right thing, and I applaud him for not giving into Republican requests to say the three magic words that they think will make all scary people vanish into the Phantom Zone.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I was wrong. It would have been a bad idea for him to say it.  And you were willing to admit you were wrong, that's always a good thing to be able to admit.
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Fox Ironic posted:Goddamn people, it's loving intersectional. Nothing exists in a vacuum. It's simultaneously: Nice job. 
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Well apparently Trump has said that he is changing the topic of tomorrow's speech to focus on national security. Oh god this is going to be painful. But hopefully we'll come out of it with new horrifyingly crazy soundbites.
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Errant Gin Monks posted:He keeps saying there is no vetti process, but I was under the impression that the syrian refuges were screened really hard before being sent here. He is just making poo poo up again right?
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This is actually kinda sad. Born so near, and their lives went so differently.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/stevenportnoy/status/742783663000158208 A Winner is Jew posted:You know, if you were to have told me that republicans would consider gun control after 49 gay men were gunned down but not after 20 school children were gunned down I would have laughed in your face... yet here we are.  https://www.thetrace.org/2015/11/gun-control-race-history-saul-cornell/
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Tatum Girlparts posted:wasn't this supposed to be a speech about the shooting On Terra Firma posted:Holy poo poo this owns. This is scathing and the line about how politicians fall under the protection of those who work to fight ISIS, pause "even those who tweet", was awesome.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/mikedebonis/status/743509256834547714 There are terrorists who are Muslims. There are Muslim people beating the poo poo out of terrorists. Piss off Limbaugh.
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Noam Chomsky posted:I posted it a few pages ago. No one cared. I think for many Trump is beyond laughing at and now many in D&D are setting their hair on fire and are actually worried about the chump.
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SquadronROE posted:Every time someone says "This is going to inspire armed revolution!" I remember the Y'all Queada in Oregon. They're all just full of bluster. And it was not the fantasy he had written about. fade5 fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Jun 18, 2016 |
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FAUXTON posted:
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at the thought that Trump's list of cabinet staff can't get security clearances because they're in hock to every rear end in a top hat from Berlusconi to Sisi to Yanukovich.
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Eschers Basement posted:Edit again: Wow, since people like this post - credit where credit is due, not actually my work, all taken fromm http://pleasecutthecrap.com/obama-accomplishments/ That post full of good stuff+the Supreme Court possibly flipping 6-3 is why I will be quite happy to pull the lever for Hillary in November. http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovemen...ter_into_frenzy Please let Clarence Thomas retire too. Crain posted:Oh no, boon, you've been hit by the touhoutar as well... Boon posted:I totally had it coming for today's posting, that's for sure. fade5 fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Jun 20, 2016 |
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Hillary is using Trump's own words against him like in the national security speech. This is great. Hillary eviscerated him, and Trump (and everyone in his campaign) knows it.
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CommieGIR posted:Fine Ol' Solution, ya'll. quote:Accordingly, the first step in coming to grips with the Islamic threat is to officially declassify Islam as a protected religion in the hearts and minds of western populations. Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Baptists, and Presbyterians do not stone women to death; they do not behead those who are of a different faith; they do not throw homosexuals from tall buildings; they do not place their enemies in steel cages and lower them into tanks of water, or spray them with gasoline and burn them alive; they do not capture large numbers of women and young girls and sell them into sex slavery; and they do not sexually assault women and girls in public places because they think their style of dress is an open invitation. No, these are atrocities that are unique to the Muslim world. They are not, and can never be, protected religious practices by anyone’s standard. https://twitter.com/jackshahine/status/724600179270275072 https://twitter.com/EzidiPress/status/737735027069440001 https://twitter.com/EzidiPress/status/739223323041800192 While this rear end in a top hat has been sitting and writing a Nazi paper about how evil Muslims are, a bunch of various Muslim and non-Muslim forces have been busy saving Yazidis in any way they can.
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Evil Fluffy posted:People are idiots. Sidenote, Hillary is really loving good at this twitter war stuff. I approve.
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Crosspost from the right-wing media thread: https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/746452315213828097 One of Obama's really interesting legacies is going to be the huge leaps in LGBT rights that happened in an astoundingly short amount of time.
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Thundercracker posted:Is Cameron the dumbest PM in UK history, or is there another example? Chamberlain doesn't count, he was threading a needle during war times. This is an unforced error. SpaceDrake posted:It's been said, but he's quite possibly a greater screw-up than even Anthony Eden. Eden at least had reason for trying what he did during the Suez Crisis; Cameron has destroyed the British Union purely as a side effect of a political trick that didn't work. Yvonmukluk posted:Chamberlain was actually stepping up rearmament for the conflict with Germany (but knew Britain was nowhere near ready for war) and had to answer to an electorate that was still not willing to go to war, he's streets ahead of Call Me Dave. There's not going to be any Cameron revisionists speaking up in his defence in 70 years, this was almost entirely his fault. David Cameron: "Quite possibly the dumbest PM in UK history, and yes we're including Anthony Eden and Neville Chamberlain when we say that." I honestly agree with calling him the dumbest PM in UK history, because at least Eden's and Chamberlain's fuckups weren't self-inflicted/self-created and 100% avoidable.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Will isn't voting for Hillary. I think Paulson did endorse her. My biggest concern is that a lot of neocons are fine with her foreign policy. That should worry everyone. I think it's becoming pretty apparent that if she gets elected we are escalating in Syria. Maybe also Afghanistan but definitely Syria. Right now the State Department is upset with Obama for not doing more on Syria, and apparently John Kerry is in agreement at least somewhat on that. I appreciate Obama not bowing to the pressure to get us further involved in a situation that is clearly a quagmire. MC Nietzche posted:Also you know when the State Department, which is ostensibly our diplomatic arm, is saying "hey diplomacy has failed we need to consider other options," then maybe they're right and you're wrong in your assessment of the situation in Syria? It's not like State has a lot to gain by advocating for more involvement unless you're going to say the entirety of the US Government, including the parts of it that are designed not to be, have succumbed to bloodlust. Our current strategy of backing YPG/Kurdish forces and their allies with air support to smash ISIL's face in has acceptable answers to all those questions, and is also working pretty well. Geographically though, the forces we're backing are somewhat isolated from the rest of Syria, and so some of the answers amount to "we don't currently have to worry about that", which would not be true in the future.
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Main Paineframe posted:Half the family are lawyers, they sue the crap out of people who mess with them. http://www.rawstory.com/2010/11/fix-slashed-tires-antigay-protesters-report/ quote:About a half-dozen members of the Westboro Baptist Church traveled to McAlester, Oklahoma Saturday to picket Army Sgt. Jason James McCluskey’s funeral.
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Rygar201 posted:When did the DnD concensus drift away from Secretary Castro?
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BigRed0427 posted:I also have the BBC for general news, and 538 for analysis kind of reporting. gradenko_2000 posted:Vice News? I know Al-Jazeera America already shut down, but then I think it was their international desk that was good to begin with.
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