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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Real diplomats are truly devious motherfuckers, used to playing at very high levels. This kind of idiot running into the playing field and making a huge mess is a source of hilarity and headaches.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Trump Omits Mention of Jews, and others, Killed in Holocaust Speech
, ADL condemns speech.
It is kind of weird that Trump didn't mention the fact that 6 Million Jews died in the Holocaust.
I don't understand. All of his children married a Jew or are one themselves. He's got a bunch of Jewish people in his inner circle.
How does this even work?!
Either Bannon happened, or he made the mistake of thinking he didn't need to mention the main victims of the Holocaust.
Either way, it was out of stupidity. I don't think he did this on purpose. If he did, then Bannon is gaining too much influence on him.
EDIT: Trump defends Barack Obama, Former Pres, from Chelsea Manning Comment
. What in the...?!
edited 27th Jan '17 2:54:52 PM by DingoWalley1
As one of the comments there said, and what I got from it, he just seems to be angry at Manning's hipocrisy, not that he stopped thinking Obama is a weak leader.
Or maybe he just saw Fox News and confused, got all the words mixed up in his tweet.
edited 27th Jan '17 3:18:25 PM by Grafite
Life is unfair...
Maybe Obama just gave him genuine good advice?
"Haley told reporters, 'Everything that's working, we're going to make it better, everything that's not working we're going to try and fix, and anything that seems to be obsolete and not necessary we're going to do away with.'"
Who does this sound like? It's extremely close to the first speech given at Hogwarts by Dolores Umbridge. And this is the nominee Kirsten Gillibrand voted for. *headdesk*
EDIT: Remembered the Senator wrong.
edited 27th Jan '17 3:50:25 PM by Ingonyama
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Not just Warren. Also Gillibrand, who up until then had voted against every single one of Trump's nominees.
Turns out she should have just dug in her heels and gone the whole hog.
edited 27th Jan '17 3:39:12 PM by RBluefish
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."Trump says he is only in early stages of considering lifting Russia sanctions
With Trump expected to speak by phone on Saturday with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time since taking power a week ago, speculation has been rife that he is close to lifting sanctions imposed by then-President Barack Obama over Moscow's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula in 2014.
Such a move would likely cause consternation among European allies as well as many in the U.S. Congress who are also troubled by Russia's intervention in the Syrian civil war and by U.S. intelligence agencies' finding that Moscow meddled in the U.S. election campaign.
Even McConnell says he opposes lifting those sanctions. Which, as we've all learned by now, means we'll at least get the grim satisfaction of seeing all the spineless Republicans shamelessly flip-flop on their previous positions the moment Trump sends an angry tweet their way.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."

Seriously, the Trump administration straight up threatened both the EU and the UN now. That's got to bite him badly, right?