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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Meanwhile, the retards in my own great state of North Carolina have tried and failed, again, to outlaw gay marriage: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/04/12/north-carolina-bill-banning-same-sex-marriage-again-wont-be-heard-house-speaker-says/?utm_term=.f22ff3b23d0a
I want to have schadenfreude in watching Americans realize they were duped by their support of Trump but whatever enjoyment I could have taken from it is tainted by the nature of the regrets.
"I regret my vote because I realize the harm Trump will do to the economy," is a regret I can get behind. "Because I found out Trump's a con man and is looting our government," is another good one.
"I regret my vote because Trump is secretly a shill for the liberal Jew agenda who attacked Syria even though everyone knows Syria was a False Flag operation by the New World Order, hail Putin!" just makes me embarrassed for the country I live in. People are turning on Trump, but for all the wrong reasons.
The last thing we need in 2020 is for Trump to be opposed by Alt-Right II: Trump Harder.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I think you just gave Trump his campaign slogan for 2020.
Anyway: Trump says Nato 'no longer obsolete'
Hosting Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House, Mr Trump said the threat of terrorism had underlined the alliance's importance.
He called on Nato to do more to help Iraqi and Afghan "partners".
Mr Trump has repeatedly questioned Nato's purpose, while complaining that the US pays an unfair share of membership.
The Nato U-turn wasn't Mr Trump's only change of heart on Wednesday.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, he said he would not label China a currency manipulator, despite having repeatedly pledged to do so on his first day in office.
At a joint press conference with Mr Stoltenberg, Mr Trump said: "The secretary general and I had a productive discussion about what more Nato can do in the fight against terrorism."
"I complained about that a long time ago and they made a change, and now they do fight terrorism.
"I said it [Nato] was obsolete. It's no longer obsolete."
But Mr Trump reiterated his call for Nato member states to contribute more funding to the alliance.
"If other countries pay their fair share instead of relying on the United States to make up the difference we will all be much more secure," said the US president.
Earlier this week Nato welcomed Montenegro as its 29th member nation.
The meeting at the White House comes hours after US Secretary of States Rex Tillerson met Russian President Vladimir Putin during a trip to Moscow.
"Things went pretty well. Maybe better than anticipated," Mr Trump said about that meeting.
"Right now we're not getting along with Russia at all. We may be at an all-time low in terms of relationship with Russia."
I guess the organization is no longer obsolete when your own country's running out of patience for authority figures sending off peoples' kids to die in the Middle East. Might as well drag a few more countries' children with you.
God, I hope the European NATO contingent tells him to go piss up a rope.
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.GOP Rep says Spicer Hitler talk not without some validity
“I can’t even believe that anybody in the media, much less all of the major networks, led with this story,” Cramer said Wednesday on KFYR-FM radio, as reported by CNN.
“[Spicer’s] a spokesman who, by the way, made a poor illustration, but it’s not completely, it’s not without some validity,” Cramer added.
Cramer added Spicer made “a factual statement” about the differences between Hitler and Assad.
“I think what he was saying is that Hitler didn’t take chemical weapons out in a battle-like form and do what Assad did with these children,” Cramer said. “I think [Spicer] apologized and that’s the end of it.”
Come the fuck on.
New Survey coming this weekend!Trump's budget director called Trump's promise to eliminate the National Debt, "hyperbole". Nothing we didn't already know, but still worth metioning.
edited 12th Apr '17 3:29:09 PM by megaeliz
It's possible that article is being lost in translation
a bit.
It's a U-turn report. There's a political game we like to play in the UK - it's not officially, or even unofficially, regarded as a game, it's more like a minor obsession. We look for politicians who are engaging in U-turns. There are two types: the ones who engage in subtle U-turns, and the ones who engage in great big unmissable U-turns. What the two types have in common is that they'll deny it's a U-turn, no matter evidence is thrown at them.
The point of obsessing over U-turns is that it validates our sense that politicians cannot be trusted (unless they're saying what we want to hear - and that is all you need to know about the Brexit campaign). That's basically what the BBC article is doing - it's not being optimistic about Trump, it's basically saying the following:
'Here's our most recent report on why Trump can be considered either untrustworthy, incompetent or both. Yes, it's another U-turn... and, while we're on the subject, we're just going to list several other things he's flip-flopping and dithering about'.
Pretty sad that a neocon, who is only going to fuck up domestically is the best result for a Trump admin (that isn't removed due to one legal incident or another).
Now if he would just back off on trade...
edited 12th Apr '17 3:52:17 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.edited 12th Apr '17 4:02:49 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives@Mad Skillz
It's well established at this point that a distressing number of voters genuinely believe what they see in memes, especially if shared by a friend. The assumption is their friend would not lie to them.
As for it only being dumb teenagers...I'll tell that to the woman in her late twenties (and all her friends) who screamed about how my fiancee was a Trump supporter and then blocked her because she dared to tell them that tear gas and nerve toxins aren't the same damn thing.

Trump told the Wall Street Journal that he had changed his mind because China is not currently manipulating his currency, adding that he hoped to enlist China’s help on containing the nuclear threat from North Korea.
Trump gives in to Xi.