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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Ooh, McCain is taking decisive action in defending the Ukraine from Russian aggression!
He sent one strongly worded letter.
Now Trump will be like "no" and McCain will just be like "fair enough."
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."My company sent an internal memo reaffirming its stance on equal opportunity in the workplace and offering advice/assistance for any employees affected by the travel ban.
edited 2nd Feb '17 10:50:19 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Steve Bannon and Prospects of a US-China War in the South China Sea
Bannon’s remarks on the South China Sea are troubling. He anticipates a major shooting war there with China: “We’re going to war in the South China Sea in five to 10 years, aren’t we?” he can be heard saying. “There’s no doubt about that. They’re taking their sandbars and making basically stationary aircraft carriers and putting missiles on those. They come here to the United States in front of our face — and you understand how important face is — and say it’s an ancient territorial sea.”
Bannon, Trump’s chief ideologue, gets the facts somewhat wrong on the South China Sea. For instance, when he refers to China placing missiles on its artificial islands, he’s most likely conflating China’s deployment HQ-9 surface-to-air missiles to Woody Island in the Paracels last year with Beijing’s ongoing land reclamation and construction work in the Spratlys, where it has constructed seven artificial islands.
I also wrote last week about how the Trump administration doesn’t seem to have its act together on the South China Sea, based on seemingly off-the-cuff remarks delivered by the new White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, that suggested the U.S. would use armed force to “defend international territories from being taken over.” Spicer’s remarks are still the only official commentary we’ve heard out of the Trump administration on the South China Sea since Trump’s inauguration. Comments earlier in January by Rex Tillerson, who was sworn in as Trump’s secretary of state yesterday after being successfully confirmed by the Senate, also suggested a collision course with China.
China chastised Spicer for his remarks, reminding the United States that it wasn’t a claimant state in the South China Sea, and it’s leaders will no doubt have taken note of Bannon’s central role within the new administration. Bannon’s buy-in into the Huntingtonian idea of a brewing clash of civilizations between the “Judeo-Christian West” and the rest of the world’s civilizations partly disposes him to distrust China.
USA Today additionally found a February 2016 interview that underwrites Bannon’s Huntingtonian worldview; he places “an expansionist Islam and … an expansionist China” side-by-side as threats. “They are motivated. They’re arrogant. They’re on the march. And they think the Judeo-Christian West is on the retreat,” he says. Though Bannon’s reasons for being hawkish on China may be more heterodox, he has several fellow travelers within the Trump administration — many of whom are pushing for the United States to test China on trade policy and the One China policy as well.
Bannon’s open expectation of a war with China combined with his proximity to the president of the United States should be concerning. The expectation of war can intensify and expand the United States’ strategic ambitions in the South China Sea. For instance, Bannon may push Trump to implement something like what Spicer or Tillerson have alluded to in the South China Sea, triggering an a kinetic response from China. In short, Bannon’s expectation of a war can make war more likely. (For a more granular look at how intense a U.S. war with China might be and how it might end, I recommend this RAND Corporation report from last year.)
Normally, a Bannon-esque ideologue wouldn’t present too great of a risk, but Trump’s first weeks in office have shown that the former Breitbart executive director’s fingerprints are on every major and unusual initiative, from the controversial and chaotic executive order banning refugees and travelers from Muslim-majority countries to the darkly apocalyptic rhetoric of Trump’s inaugural address (which omitted any mention of the U.S. constitution, incidentally). Given Bannon’s centrality to the actions this administration has taken and his proximity to Trump — a man seemingly inclined to agree with the last person he spoke to — the stakes are too great not to take this seriously.
Seeing a headline on CNN "Trump tells Chaplain he can keep job 'the Hell with it'".
No sound on tv, it went to commercial, and a quick search just brings up the prayer breakfast
I'm going to look more but I'm wondering if anyone here knows what that's about
edited 2nd Feb '17 10:53:54 AM by sgamer82
... What? I don't understand what that actually means...
Me either. Is he referring to the Senate Chaplain it a guy named Chaplain?
EDIT: Found it. It was part of his Prayer Breakfast speech and he meant the Senate Chaplain.
I'm firmly apatheist, but even I know that there's things you Don't Do at a religious event...
edited 2nd Feb '17 11:07:46 AM by sgamer82
It seems to be from:
Trump at National Prayer Breakfast: 'Pray for Arnold'
Edit:
Moved by Black's remarks, Trump lauded him.
"Thank you as well to senator chaplain Barry Black for his moving words," he said. Trump added: "I don't know, chaplain, whether that's an appointed position? Is that an appointed position? I don't know if you're Democrat or Republican, but I'm appointing you for another year. The hell with it."
Also, apparently every country takes advantage of America and that's not going to happen anymore. Sure. Okay.
edited 2nd Feb '17 11:11:20 AM by Pseudopartition
Matthew McConaughey says it's time to embrace Trump.
Fuck off, Matt.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."Yeah I'm sorry maybe if this was a bargain bin Republican MAYBE there would some remote shred of validity to that statement, but this is infuriating false centrism at its finest.
Trump is a petulant, amoral manbaby who's destroying everything good and decent in this country, egged on by Bannon who is a disgusting creep.
edited 2nd Feb '17 11:33:31 AM by Draghinazzo
Look, I know we may disagree with him on policy, but Hitler's our Fuhrer now and it's time to just accept that and embrace him.
People may criticize his tendency to destroy entire civilized worlds, but Palpatine is our Emperor whether we like it or not. It's time to stop squabbling and embrace him.
I have my criticisms of that shark that's biting your legs off, but he's there now, and it's time to just embrace him and see what we can accomplish together.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."The White House turned off the recording for the call between Trump and Putin
Gee Trump, if you're not a Russian puppet, you sure are doing poor job showing it.
What? He hides shit more than a repressed person with a shady past.
His taxes
Those emails he destroyed during a court case
edited 2nd Feb '17 11:41:12 AM by NoName999
Has anyone heard anything new from that "Rogue White House staff" Twitter account?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.After Trump mocks Schwarzenegger's run on The Apprentice this morning, Ahnold responds in kind
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Trump mad about disorder from Immigration Ban EO, will have Reince Priebus review all EO's before release
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That's definitely a positive; it's the first time Bannon was given a limit from Trump (Who has constantly given him power).