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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
It wouldn't be anything shocking, like the US suddenly allying with Russia and North Korea. If anything it would more or less follow the lines you'd expect, its main feature would be that it was easily avoidable to begin with.
Trump isn't going to rewrite a century of foreign policy, he's just gonna screw up or be manipulated and blunder his way into something really bad.
They should have sent a poet."I've honestly been wondering what WWIII would look like under Trump."
Reading It Can't Happen Here and/or The Plot Against America should provide a pretty good illustration.
If WW3 happens and Trump has us join the axis i'm joining The Resistance (or starting one if nobody else has).
Concerning Warren...
The reason some soured on her was because she at one point went along with the "DNC rigged the primaries" narrative.
That was a while ago though, and she hasn't really said anything else like that recently. Heck, my own memory of this is a bit fuzzy.
edited 12th Jun '18 6:21:42 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedOh, come now! Mexico can be like the USSR in WWII!
"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."If WWIII breaks out, I highly doubt that multicellular life would be able to survive beyond a month or two, much less an axis of evil or an alliance of free nations.
And that would be a mercy compared to the tyranny the world would undoubtedly suffer through if the war doesn't go nuclear.
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's DictionaryNunes and Rosenstein duke it out (not really though)
Rosenstein plans to call on House to investigate its own staff
Rosenstein has butted heads with House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes for months over a subpoena for documents related to the Russia investigation, but the battle spilled out into public view Tuesday after Fox News reported staff on the committee felt "personally attacked" at a meeting with Rosenstein in January.
Justice Department officials dispute the recounting of the closed-door meeting detailed in the story, and Rosenstein now plans to "request that the House general counsel conduct an internal investigation of these Congressional staffers' conduct" when he returns from a foreign trip this week, a Justice Department official said.
"The Deputy Attorney General never threatened anyone in the room with a criminal investigation," the official said. "The FBI Director, the senior career ethics adviser for the Department, and the Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs who were all present at this meeting are all quite clear that the characterization of events laid out here is false.
"The Deputy Attorney General was making the point — after being threatened with contempt — that as an American citizen charged with the offense of contempt of Congress, he would have the right to defend himself, including requesting production of relevant emails and text messages and calling them as witnesses to demonstrate that their allegations are false," the official added. "That is why he put them on notice to retain relevant emails and text messages, and he hopes they did so."
Another former US official, also present at the meeting, agreed that at no time did Rosenstein threaten any House staff with a criminal investigation.
Later Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions came to Rosenstein's defense during an interview with Fox News, saying he was "confident that Deputy Rosenstein, after 28 years in the Department of Justice, did not improperly threaten anyone on that occasion."
Sessions said he wasn't in the room but that FBI Director Christopher Wray and the Justice Department's senior ethics official were there and didn't see it "in the same fashion," further emphasizing the extent to which the Justice Department has tried "to be cooperative" with Capitol Hill "as the months have gone by."
When asked directly about the meeting, Nunes declined to comment, telling CNN: "Man, you always try, don't you."
The DOJ official said that no formal complaint about Rosenstein's conduct has ever been filed with the House general counsel or inspector general to his knowledge.
While Rosenstein and Nunes have been trading barbs for months over the California Republican's document requests, the two nevertheless went to dinner with a mutual friend on the evening of the January meeting.
Nunes never raised Rosenstein's conduct that evening, the official added.
Renato Mariotti's take:
If that's what happened, Nunes' staffers should not have felt personally attacked. Rosenstein was just telling them the consequences of taking a very foolish action against him. He has a right to due process, and during that process, the facts matter.
edited 12th Jun '18 6:51:31 PM by megaeliz
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Life would definitely survive. Humans would probably survive. We just wouldn't really like the world we ended up with.
Realistically, though, there are a lot of ways a major war could break out without a nuclear exchange. That's a worst case scenario for everyone.
edited 12th Jun '18 6:51:53 PM by archonspeaks
They should have sent a poet.@Trash Jack: Multicellular life could easily survive a nuclear war. Earth's been through many disasters that would make a nuclear war look pleasant by comparison, including asteroids and possibly even gamma ray bursts.
In fact, some organisms would benefit from a nuclear war because some thrive in such conditions and it would halt human industry for a while.
Humans in particular would probably survive as we eat just about everything and live just about everywhere.
And no, extinction is not preferable to tyranny. The slave can be freed, the dead do not rise. Tyrannies come and go.
Leviticus 19:34- Two Teapublicans (Mark Sanford of South Carolina, and Nick Freitas of Virginia) lost to Trumpeteer Republicans (Katie Arrington and Corey Stewart).
- The Republican Senate Candidate in Maine, Eric Brakey, who is going against Ind. Angus King, has a video of him doing the Harlem Shake in a speedo going around the Internet now.
- State Senate-1 in Wisconsin is a flip, with Caleb Frostman (D) taking the seat.

I did vote for Hillary Clinton but I have never been a fan of her.
I would, however, like to elect a woman for 2020.
Which is perhaps sexist as it ignores the qualifications of the candidate but it's about time too.
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