There is far too much MIC profit to be extricated from our taxpayers in siege replenishables, e.g. Tomahawk missiles, aerial bombs modified to be TGBs and FUELS!! to be faux-bullied by Putin.
Imagine two devious leaders conspiring to start a mock war against one another in a region which can be looted for natural resources by those behind one or both leaders.
Trump on Iraq: "We should have kept the oil." Quoting the former WWE promoter and reality show producer.
An important fact - Trump lost the popular vote. A majority of American voters did not want this maladministration to occur. And they rejected at the polls, the cruel and destructive policies that Trump and his minions are currently forcing upon them.
Trump voters are THE MINORITY but due to Republican election CHEATING these miscreants are treated as the majority, THEY ARE NOT!
william - you are very correct about Mike Pence and his creepy Dominionist bedfellows. Pence has been a fly-on-the-wall throughout and has done NOTHING to stand-up for the citizens of our country.
Cowardly Pence lurking in the shadows must not become our President.
"Qatar and the United States have solidified their military cooperation by having fought together side by side for many years now in an effort to eradicate terrorism and promote a future of dignity and prosperity," quoting Secretary of Defense General Mattis in direct contradiction to the CICPOTUS.
Maybe if Qatar would allow Trump and Tillerson to rub their orbs?
The General picked a very good time to defy the clueless "businessman" and "oil baron" who are distracted attempting to clean-up big messes of their own amateurish making.
Since Trump admitted to firing Comey over Russia on national television which is clearly obstruction, Sessions is a fool for stonewalling for him. And makes him complicit.
As long as powerful people with criminal acts to hide remain in control nothing will improve, only more chaos and stupidity will ensue. If POTUS was the only one with things to hide, he's not. If POTUS goes down, so do many others. And why these investigations will be stonewalled, effectively.
Although Roger Ailes is responsible for the twisted content being spoon-fed to almost captive audiences in rest homes, waiting rooms and eateries because FAUXNews is FREE! Not because Ailes in any way is clever or intellectual but because under-educated, angry white people are very easy to HERD especially if it’s free for the taking.
How dare Pope Francis attempt to school the mental giant many elected to be our President. The pope had better get it right! Climate changes caused by human activity is a Obama/Clinton HOAX!! The melting of the Earth’s poles and all the glaciers is GODS WILL! As is everything this amazing President utters, the pope should count himself fortunate to have even met with such a learned and divinely connected superhuman as Donald J. Trump.
Did Pope Francis and his highness Trump dance with swords or decorate each other? Nope. Did the pope offer a bomb-proof lodging to super POTUS? No. Did the pope purchase 115 M1A2 General Dynamics tanks? Vatican parking is limited. So, no.
Pope Francis insulted our divinely-elevated rotund President by asking our Slovenian First Lady what she was feeding him? Potica?
$119B in weapons sales to anyone in no way encourages peace.
Included in the Trump deal were:
• 4 Littoral Combat Ships for $6 billion. An $11.5 billion deal for four ships was approved by the State Department in 2015, but hadn't reached the final contract stage after the Saudis had sticker shock. The final letter of agreement on the littoral combat ships is the highest-profile element of the new deals.
• $3.4 billion shipment of AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopters, a deal already negotiated.
about $500 million in what could become a $3.5 billion deal for as many as 48 CH-47 Chinook helicopters and related equipment built by Boeing. That sale was approved by the State Department and Congress in December 2016.
• $6-billion pledge to assemble 150 Lockheed Martin Blackhawk helicopters in Saudi Arabia, which is expected to result in the creation of 450 jobs in Saudi Arabia.
• 115 M1A2 General Dynamics (GD) tanks and some number of HERCULES Armored Recovery Vehicles (ARV). The estimated cost was $1.15 billion, and this seems to be the deal notified to Congress in August 2016, though the details are not entirely consistent.
• Theater High Altitude Area Defense [THAAD] missile defense system. Jared Kushner reportedly helped push the THAAD deal through by asking Lockheed's CEO Marillyn Hewson to lower the price for the Saudis. As of early 2012 discussions were under way for a THAAD sale to Saudi Arabia. Washington was also urging the kingdom to upgrade its 16 Patriot Advanced Capability-2 batteries, which have 96 missiles, to PAC-3 standard.
• more Pac-3 Patriot missiles from Lockheed is expected as it has already been approved by Congress
• Raytheon “smart bombs” - Trump was expected to lift the Obama administration's hold on a $1 billion sale of Penetrator Warheads and Paveway laser-guided bombs.
• sale by Boeing of 3,000 tail kits to convert unguided munitions into GPS-guided bombs.
• nearly $18 billion programme to upgrade Saudi Arabia’s military command-and-control structure
• satellite technology
• radar
“It is hard to believe that Trumps supporters have embraced all this, and keep supporting him, despite the fact that investigations may lead to treason charges.”
Believe it.
“You can't fix stupid. There's not a pill you can take; there's not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.” quoting Mr. Ron White. link to imdb.com
The besotted comedian’s South Texas country perspective is valid and our country is stuck with the folks who refused to accept we actually had a President who was a person of color and believe women are too emotional/hormonal to be President or own more than seventeen (17) firearms.
President Trump’s continuous utter disregard for laws and ethos can no longer be attributed to ignorance. Clearly, this is the behavior of a criminal psychopath scofflaw.
Trump’s deficiencies and his desperate childish need to show-off will make him putty in the hands of more experienced and wholly sane leaders. Especially with his maladministration in serious trouble.
Trump on the loose right now is the Devils Workshop.
Professor Cole - Observing POTUS is a spoiled, stoned-out, paranoid old man with the mind of an angry ten year-old boy, the answer to your well-made question is obvious.
Once the more unscrupulous and aggressive power-seeking U.S. General Officers, e.g. Flynn, Mattis and General Kelly - Secretary of Homeland Security fully grasp the POTUS is a spoiled, stoned-out, paranoid old man whose early-onset of dementia gives him the mind of an angry ten year-old boy, he will be easy prey for senior military advice and counsel. Since POTUS only knows what he sees on FAUXNews.
Mr. Sjursen makes a chilling point with the JFK quote, ”These brass hats [generals and admirals] have one great advantage. If we… do what they want us to do, none of us will be alive later to tell them that they were wrong.” Trump can easily take us back to 1962 over North Korea.
OK! WE get it! Donald J. Trump is the most dangerous anti-American President in history. The man is currently biting the hand that feeds with his lifestyle. Unworthy of his good fortune, his bravado his resulted in the real chance for a war involving the use of nuclear weapons being imminent.
Pointing out the constant stream of insanity, nepotism and creative incompetence the oozes from all of POTUS haunts is well and good.
How do we rid ourselves of this 70 year-old stoned-out, babbling narcissist without launching the millions of gun toting, Depends-wearing Trumpists he will no doubt incite if his illegitimate Presidency is actually threatened?
History is full of proven examples on how to deal with a “Fake” leader, particularly an unstable dynastic leader. Our “Trump problem” must be solved within the U.S by our citizens, otherwise it may end up being solved like the demise of the Axis in WWII by foreign invasion.
This must be made crystal clear - if you are poor, a person of color or someone with a pre-existing condition the Republicans want you to die! And quickly, so as not to burden the money they paid that others could not.
When our President and his minions want to destroy our government, we are ALL AT GREAT RISK!! Even Trump loyalists. The Second Amendment means nothing when compared to nukes.
Trifling with a man who can commit fratricide is not a good business deal under any circumstance.
The thought had occurred that these forest/jungle decimating, ocean garbage dumping, fossil fuel demons are terraforming Earth for someone else. Certainly not their descendents?
Never before has such a threat to our nation existed much less infested our White House.
The Trump maladministration is not fluent in “Constitution” nor any other law abiding tendency.
The longer we wait to rid ourselves of this insane stoned-out old man, his family and the assorted grifter hangers-on the worse it will be for everyone including Trump loyalists, wealthy and not.
Once the ROW becomes fully aware of our imbecilic President, no one will be safe. Obviously, Putin knows.
malPOTUS only knows what he heard last night over chocolate cake or saw scrolling-by on FAUXNews. The only way “science” fits into the up/down, right/left, no/yes world of this President is that many scientists and highly-educated citizens oppose his actions and appointments which makes “scientists and highly-educated citizens” the ENEMY.
Normal citizens and Trump voters alike must fully realize the new President is a spoiled, stoned-out, paranoid old man whose early-onset of dementia gives him the mind of a curious ten year-old boy. Certainly other world leaders once getting a dose of Trump realize that?
The country must come to grips with the fact a grave mistake has been made which is far beyond internationally embarrassing. malPOTUS and those around him have unnecessarily placed all of us in greater DANGER especially those West of the Rockies.
• Re-igniting the 1950s Korean War with a nuclear-armed enemy.
• Reversing efforts to mitigate homogenically-induced climate change and the on-going rapid desertification of our West Coast.
• Significant number of undocumented residing there.
• None of the West Coast States went to Trump in the election.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger and UC Berkeley are both there.
Attorney-General Jeff Sessions is a deeply RACIST “good old boy” who got his job by GROVELING before Trump from day-one. Based on statements like “ . . . I really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the President of the United States . . . “ AG Sessions clearly exposes a deficiency of legal acumen required to be our Attorney General and the pronouncement to place his President above the law is flat-out scary.
Aside from recusing himself from on-going investigations into alleged Russian machinations on behalf of Trump during our elections, Sessions wants to empower local police to become Red Hat door kickers to do his bidding. That way sanctuary cities can more easily fall under martial law and every pot-smoker in America will end up behind bars where they belong.
Sessions is simply an ignorant LIAR and must resign.
Good riddance to an ugly, loathsome propagandist and FAUX feculent stain. Maybe POTUS can give him a job, replacing Sean Spicer as maladministration garbage-mouth. Bill O’Reilly is perfectly qualified as “pussy-grabbing” is SOP even admired by the current White House.
Thomas - If the species makes it to 2060, religions will still be used to divide what remains of the depleted planet, on the MENU. The population will drop according to taste.
The U.S. operates three (3) shared air bases in Turkey. The base at Incirlik is necessary for the air wars and bombing in Syria and Iraq especially for recovery and refueling.
POTUS listens to his generals and his open support for another authoritarian leader whose power grab and methods he envies is not hard to understand.
On 15 July 2016, a “coup d'état” was attempted by the military to oust Erdoğan from power. The next day Erdoğan's government somehow managed to regain control of the country. Reportedly, no government official was arrested or harmed, which raised the firm suspicion of a false flag event staged by Erdoğan and his minions.
On 20 July 2016, President Erdoğan declared a state of emergency, citing the recent failed “coup d'état” attempt as justification.
Erdoğan took a narrow lead in a highly-contested referendum which dissolves the Turkish democracy making him the leader in a virtual dictatorship. Erdoğan then declared himself the winner and extended his state of emergency.
malPOTUS likes it and can’t wait for his own “coup d'état” aka Reichstag Fire attempt. What will it be?
Meanwhile, the shared air bases at Incirlik, Izmir and Ankara will endure.
Back on Twitter for Easter , malPoTUS openly threatens First Amendment Rights, "Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!" the president tweeted in his sunrise service. And boasting "I did what was almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the Electoral College! Now Tax Returns are brought up again?" malPOTUS tweeted. (Twitter-in-Chief LOST the popular vote [us], the Electoral College is primarily CEOs and persons-of-wealth [them].)
Since malPOTUS hires signage, “professional enthusiasm” and private security for his gatherings, he cannot conceive of real people funding themselves to attend a gathering making a reasonable request of the President of the United States and for good reason. To dispel any notion our new President is a multi-decade felony tax evader and launderer of criminal assets.
For decades, US presidents and presidential candidates have released their tax returns voluntarily. Clearly, what Trump is HIDING involves those who cannot allow themselves to be exposed.
With the help of the current DUPED, slavish Christian Republican Party and the $$$ of the 1%, a CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE is infesting our White House.
Irrelevant ODS (Obama Derangement Syndrome) commenting can be overcome by fully realizing President Obama is no longer in office and cannot be re-elected also accepting he was President while a person-of-color.
President Donald J. Trump is a CRIMINAL enterprise who associates with other criminals. Any CRIMINAL of experience would naturally have a genuine need to hide any presence of his CRIMINAL associates and questionable seekers of Presidential approbate.
What crimes? Felony tax evasion, providing cover for criminal assets through “investments” in Trump holdings and machinating with an enemy to gain a Presidency.
Meet malPOTUS new favorite toy, the B61-12 nuclear bomb which can be delivered onto a target by a F-16C. An inert bomb was very recently tested in Nevada to evaluate the non-nuclear components like aiming and sensors.
Silly Steve Bannon’s paltry nationalist thinking no longer impresses malPOTUS who having brought the U.S. to it’s knees, now wants the whole world with a big T on it that can be seen from the moon which will also have a big T on it. Bannon lacks the visions of malPOTUS to his demise; not to mention the audacity to tiff with Vice President Ivanka’s husband.
Quoting Professor Cole - “My guess is that the Tomahawk strikes were impulsive and a one-off.” The question should be whose impulse? Eric sez Ivanka made daddy do it.
It’s not only Donald J. Trump but the entire menagerie of the willfully ignorant installed at the very top of our leadership both Executive Branch and Congressional. Do U.S. citizens with fifth grade educations have that much sway in our country? Apparently, so.
Want to drastically increase airborne pollution? Start a big war where fossil fuel assets can burn uncontrolled for years. Like the ME.
alec - The Admiral Grigorovich will be shadowed by Russian attack submarines as well.
Trump’s cure for his erectile dysfunction has already cost U.S. taxpayers well over $60M in expended cruise missiles to what end? Tillerson wants the oil in Iraq and the pipelines in Syria. So, ground war in Mesopotamia is inevitable. All that is needed is the trigger.
Consider the carrier group en-route to the Korean Peninsula? Seen as an act of war by North Korea? You bet. Interests on the West Coast of the U.S. will become active targets.
Travis - the Guardian piece if read explains the relevance as do all the links provided. A hyper-stimulated psychopath now has his finger on the button who is being encouraged by those who will never serve nor will any of their kin.
The Russian cruise missile frigate, the Admiral Grigorovich is en-route to Tartus for a little cruise missile sausage party between Vladimir Putin and President Fat Amateur.
The Russian cruise missile frigate, the Admiral Grigorovich appears to be heavily armored, a design to withstand bombardment, a sea-going tank of serious consequence.
Dave - But here today in reality, it’s a bloc of corporate Republicans and Corporate- Controlled Media encouraging Trump’s war against Syria. Congressperson Lee is correct. “This is an act of war. Congress needs to come back into session & hold a debate. Anything less is an abdication of our responsibility. link to t.co
All the public “analysis” and discussion aside, Trump made his personal point by sending 59 cruise missiles onto Khayrat air force base in Homs where observers on the ground saw “low combat efficiency” from the attack at a unit cost of $750,000-$1,400,000 depending on the BGM-109 TLAM series and block.
This was a very risky and EXPENSIVE expression of grievance made on our behalf, y’all. Considering, it is a full-blown act of war which will have CONSEQUENCES.
And it is the Trump voters who will bring warfare onto our shores.
He didn’t get it. The born-again Confederate Congress saw to that. Only Christian white people are permitted to kill Muslims at will. POTUS claims to be a Christian and is a shade of white, orange actually. So, it’s all good.
Besides, it is apparent there is real fear in opposing the new maladministration.
Quoting the last paragraph - “In fact, often the “best” solution for the USA is turn on the TV to a nice comedy and ignore what is happening elsewhere.” Where is the fun in that? When you can witness an original dark comedy series provided by the corporate-owned and controlled media 24/7?
Five days prior to the banned-weapons attack on little Syrian children, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said, “The longer-term status of President Assad will be decided by the Syrian people,” implying a definite shift in U.S. foreign policy away from regime change in Syria. A green light to cross a “red line” from the amateur maladministration.
Someone really must inform Secretary Tillerson that the Syrian people are not at home to vote. They are fleeing for their lives.
If Fat Trump is the wheeler-dealer he claims to be, he could work with his buddy, Vladimir Putin to pressure Al Assad to stop using banned weapons? Naw, he’d rather blame Obama.
Or if President Tweedldedumb was smart, he would call upon his “great friend” and Twitter-mate, Benjamin Netanyahu for a favor? Bibi has already been giving his air force some serious practice in Syria testing the new Russian air defense systems.
Either approach would be superior to what the fossil-fuel industry-driven neocon war-mongers and chickenhawks have always wanted, deeper U.S. military involvement on the ground. Undeterred by who is President.
The point being, no matter how heinous Al Assad’s behavior may be, this is simply not our fight, no matter what the NYT, Reuters, CNN or FAUXNews stuffs in our faces.
Once the Idiot-in-Chief meets with powerful, more experienced foreign leaders, the credible word will filter-down that the U.S. has indeed elected a dangerous unqualified head-case to be President. Which makes our country very dangerous in the eyes of the world.
The most powerful, death-dealing country on Earth in the hands of a self-indulgent man-child with the temperament of a pre-pubescent boy may be seen as a credible threat not unlike those seen on February 4th, 1938 in Germany or June 17th, 1938 in Japan.
This state of continuous of warfare for foreign resources has left the continental U.S. basically unscathed by the ravages of war seen in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan where those who remain are left fighting over the ruins of ruins. How much longer can this land remain untouched?
Will the incompetent Trump maladministration bring the wars home to our soil?
Fat President Trump is unwilling or unable to accept the fact when events happen on his watch as the President of the United States the ultimate responsibility falls to him.
By rolling up the “red Line” in Syria, Fat Trump openly supports the propped-up-by-Russia Assad regime, a regime which gasses it’s own citizens and subsequently bombs the hospital treating the victims, many innocent little children.
Not too long ago the ultimate goal endeavored by a majority of the U.S. public was to stop the wars and disengage from the occupations in Afghanistan and the Middle East with the understanding it would be a slow process because of the fossil fuel assets involved.
Fat Trump features himself as some kind of a obese Presidential stud who feels horrible death and maiming of brown-skinned Muslim people is what HIS mega-church gun-toting electorate wants. This tacit “Death to All Muslims” attitude amplified by maladministration •••clowns and played-down in media serves to plunge our country further into the ME tarpit and continuous war.
They want it all! Next will come the looting of the Social Security Trust Funds, to pay for The Wall and to hate Muslims.
Since POTUS LIES like his followers in Congress, after ACA is obliterated. SS and Medicare are next.
Count on it.
Here is the actual threat to U.S. military air operations over Syria.
link to youtube.com
Not "dogfighting."
Further - The memorial erected for Nabra Hassanen, the 17-year-old Muslim girl who was murdered earlier this week, was set on fire Wednesday morning.
Thank you, President of HATE Donald Trump your STUPIDITY has unintended equally stupid angry WHITE consequences.
This girl was a threat to no one.
Ask the parents of Nabra Hassanen, 17 who was clubbed to death with an aluminum bat and dumped in a pond.
link to washingtonpost.com
Driven by Trumpian rhetoric "Build a wall, hate Muslims!" a POISON POTUS tacitly encourages his followers to ooze their individual poisons.
There is far too much MIC profit to be extricated from our taxpayers in siege replenishables, e.g. Tomahawk missiles, aerial bombs modified to be TGBs and FUELS!! to be faux-bullied by Putin.
Imagine two devious leaders conspiring to start a mock war against one another in a region which can be looted for natural resources by those behind one or both leaders.
Trump on Iraq: "We should have kept the oil." Quoting the former WWE promoter and reality show producer.
link to giphy.com
An important fact - Trump lost the popular vote. A majority of American voters did not want this maladministration to occur. And they rejected at the polls, the cruel and destructive policies that Trump and his minions are currently forcing upon them.
Trump voters are THE MINORITY but due to Republican election CHEATING these miscreants are treated as the majority, THEY ARE NOT!
This must never be forgotten.
william - you are very correct about Mike Pence and his creepy Dominionist bedfellows. Pence has been a fly-on-the-wall throughout and has done NOTHING to stand-up for the citizens of our country.
Cowardly Pence lurking in the shadows must not become our President.
Martin - are you going yo take the shot?
Previous Afghanistan "surges" were wasted efforts. How will this Turge be any different?
Trump can now kill Muslims and brown-skinned people at will. Count on it.
Guess all the pipelines aren't finished, yet?
WHAT NARRATIVE!? It's just Trump voters trying to justify their total f••k-up. Pathetic and sad to read.
The fact Mr. Putin would take the time to snark on the topic in Russian on a mess Trump may have gotten him into, demonstrates his concern.
The OFF-TOPIC "But-but-but-Clinton" comments are annoying and counterproductive.
She lost, a total •••hole won - get used to it!!
By arming both sides many more browned-skinned Muslims will perish.
Bingo!
"Qatar and the United States have solidified their military cooperation by having fought together side by side for many years now in an effort to eradicate terrorism and promote a future of dignity and prosperity," quoting Secretary of Defense General Mattis in direct contradiction to the CICPOTUS.
Consequences?
link to aljazeera.com
Maybe if Qatar would allow Trump and Tillerson to rub their orbs?
The General picked a very good time to defy the clueless "businessman" and "oil baron" who are distracted attempting to clean-up big messes of their own amateurish making.
Since Trump admitted to firing Comey over Russia on national television which is clearly obstruction, Sessions is a fool for stonewalling for him. And makes him complicit.
This is disorganized crime in action.
POTUS has found that by placing mildly disadvantaged persons into high positions of power, trust and authority he receives unbending loyalty in return
As long as powerful people with criminal acts to hide remain in control nothing will improve, only more chaos and stupidity will ensue. If POTUS was the only one with things to hide, he's not. If POTUS goes down, so do many others. And why these investigations will be stonewalled, effectively.
Hey !! This is God's will, ask any Trump retard.
It's a blessing.
Those who still support this inadequate, insecure walking POS should move to Russia where they would be much more comfortable.
Watching FAUXNews turned millions of 5th grade educated citizens into Trump voters, a FACT!
It's not the TV, it's the blissful American IGNORANCE!!
“It isn’t just Trump: The American System is Broken.”
Wrong. Trump and his tiny-minded, greedy, deplorable minions have greatly obscured any view of the system that remains, distended but intact.
Nope.
Privileged, inept, scofflaw families behave in this fashion.
Congrats! You get the very first random ButbutbutClinton of the topic.
Although Roger Ailes is responsible for the twisted content being spoon-fed to almost captive audiences in rest homes, waiting rooms and eateries because FAUXNews is FREE! Not because Ailes in any way is clever or intellectual but because under-educated, angry white people are very easy to HERD especially if it’s free for the taking.
Dave - We can store the radioactive waste at your house? OK?
How dare Pope Francis attempt to school the mental giant many elected to be our President. The pope had better get it right! Climate changes caused by human activity is a Obama/Clinton HOAX!! The melting of the Earth’s poles and all the glaciers is GODS WILL! As is everything this amazing President utters, the pope should count himself fortunate to have even met with such a learned and divinely connected superhuman as Donald J. Trump.
Did Pope Francis and his highness Trump dance with swords or decorate each other? Nope. Did the pope offer a bomb-proof lodging to super POTUS? No. Did the pope purchase 115 M1A2 General Dynamics tanks? Vatican parking is limited. So, no.
Pope Francis insulted our divinely-elevated rotund President by asking our Slovenian First Lady what she was feeding him? Potica?
link to washingtonpost.com
Good thing Melania is a devout Catholic or that pope would be fresh Twitter-bait.
The Vatican leg of the “Religions for Profits Tour” was a failure because the pope was unable to schedule Trump’s exorcism.
A: POTUS is bat•••t crazy.
Seriously.
$119B in weapons sales to anyone in no way encourages peace.
Included in the Trump deal were:
• 4 Littoral Combat Ships for $6 billion. An $11.5 billion deal for four ships was approved by the State Department in 2015, but hadn't reached the final contract stage after the Saudis had sticker shock. The final letter of agreement on the littoral combat ships is the highest-profile element of the new deals.
• $3.4 billion shipment of AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopters, a deal already negotiated.
about $500 million in what could become a $3.5 billion deal for as many as 48 CH-47 Chinook helicopters and related equipment built by Boeing. That sale was approved by the State Department and Congress in December 2016.
• $6-billion pledge to assemble 150 Lockheed Martin Blackhawk helicopters in Saudi Arabia, which is expected to result in the creation of 450 jobs in Saudi Arabia.
• 115 M1A2 General Dynamics (GD) tanks and some number of HERCULES Armored Recovery Vehicles (ARV). The estimated cost was $1.15 billion, and this seems to be the deal notified to Congress in August 2016, though the details are not entirely consistent.
• Theater High Altitude Area Defense [THAAD] missile defense system. Jared Kushner reportedly helped push the THAAD deal through by asking Lockheed's CEO Marillyn Hewson to lower the price for the Saudis. As of early 2012 discussions were under way for a THAAD sale to Saudi Arabia. Washington was also urging the kingdom to upgrade its 16 Patriot Advanced Capability-2 batteries, which have 96 missiles, to PAC-3 standard.
• more Pac-3 Patriot missiles from Lockheed is expected as it has already been approved by Congress
• Raytheon “smart bombs” - Trump was expected to lift the Obama administration's hold on a $1 billion sale of Penetrator Warheads and Paveway laser-guided bombs.
• sale by Boeing of 3,000 tail kits to convert unguided munitions into GPS-guided bombs.
• nearly $18 billion programme to upgrade Saudi Arabia’s military command-and-control structure
• satellite technology
• radar
link to globalsecurity.org
A fair question - how much stock does the Trump family own in these companies?
All the Saudis have to do is stroke his ego.
POTUS is weak.
“It is hard to believe that Trumps supporters have embraced all this, and keep supporting him, despite the fact that investigations may lead to treason charges.”
Believe it.
“You can't fix stupid. There's not a pill you can take; there's not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.” quoting Mr. Ron White. link to imdb.com
The besotted comedian’s South Texas country perspective is valid and our country is stuck with the folks who refused to accept we actually had a President who was a person of color and believe women are too emotional/hormonal to be President or own more than seventeen (17) firearms.
Whatever Putin has on POTUS or someone close to him must be very damaging.
When Sessions fires the lot of them.
Will Congress grow a pair?
The first six on the order of succession appear to be not insane which would be a big improvement over POTUS.
President Trump’s continuous utter disregard for laws and ethos can no longer be attributed to ignorance. Clearly, this is the behavior of a criminal psychopath scofflaw.
Fortunately, Super Cop got his man.
correction - Clinton was impeached for perjury and obstruction of Justice subsequent to a blowjob in the Oval Office.
Trump’s obstruction of Justice was not about fellatio but consorting with Russia and clearly less fun.
Clinton was impeached over a blowjob in the Oval Office.
Trump’s deficiencies and his desperate childish need to show-off will make him putty in the hands of more experienced and wholly sane leaders. Especially with his maladministration in serious trouble.
Trump on the loose right now is the Devils Workshop.
Professor Cole - Observing POTUS is a spoiled, stoned-out, paranoid old man with the mind of an angry ten year-old boy, the answer to your well-made question is obvious.
The thought of Henry Kissenger advising Donald Trump brings vomit to the throat.
With Trump's EPA, spill news will be surpressed, no fine will be imposed and the pipeline operator will be reimbursed for product lost in their spill.
Once the more unscrupulous and aggressive power-seeking U.S. General Officers, e.g. Flynn, Mattis and General Kelly - Secretary of Homeland Security fully grasp the POTUS is a spoiled, stoned-out, paranoid old man whose early-onset of dementia gives him the mind of an angry ten year-old boy, he will be easy prey for senior military advice and counsel. Since POTUS only knows what he sees on FAUXNews.
Mr. Sjursen makes a chilling point with the JFK quote, ”These brass hats [generals and admirals] have one great advantage. If we… do what they want us to do, none of us will be alive later to tell them that they were wrong.” Trump can easily take us back to 1962 over North Korea.
CREEPING! This is a full gallop! If WE don’t stop this CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE NOW, many innocents will suffer horribly.
Comey fired.
The coup accelerates.
OK! WE get it! Donald J. Trump is the most dangerous anti-American President in history. The man is currently biting the hand that feeds with his lifestyle. Unworthy of his good fortune, his bravado his resulted in the real chance for a war involving the use of nuclear weapons being imminent.
Pointing out the constant stream of insanity, nepotism and creative incompetence the oozes from all of POTUS haunts is well and good.
How do we rid ourselves of this 70 year-old stoned-out, babbling narcissist without launching the millions of gun toting, Depends-wearing Trumpists he will no doubt incite if his illegitimate Presidency is actually threatened?
History is full of proven examples on how to deal with a “Fake” leader, particularly an unstable dynastic leader. Our “Trump problem” must be solved within the U.S by our citizens, otherwise it may end up being solved like the demise of the Axis in WWII by foreign invasion.
The French voters, no doubt viewing the effect Trump is having on our country wanted no part of what is happening here for their country.
This must be made crystal clear - if you are poor, a person of color or someone with a pre-existing condition the Republicans want you to die! And quickly, so as not to burden the money they paid that others could not.
Mr. Kimmel, the Republicans want your child to DIE!
Observe their behavior, ignore their LYING WORDS!
When our President and his minions want to destroy our government, we are ALL AT GREAT RISK!! Even Trump loyalists. The Second Amendment means nothing when compared to nukes.
Trifling with a man who can commit fratricide is not a good business deal under any circumstance.
We need an Amendment to abolish Trump!
Before he gets a lot of innocent U.S. citizens killed and maimed.
The thought had occurred that these forest/jungle decimating, ocean garbage dumping, fossil fuel demons are terraforming Earth for someone else. Certainly not their descendents?
Never before has such a threat to our nation existed much less infested our White House.
The Trump maladministration is not fluent in “Constitution” nor any other law abiding tendency.
The longer we wait to rid ourselves of this insane stoned-out old man, his family and the assorted grifter hangers-on the worse it will be for everyone including Trump loyalists, wealthy and not.
Once the ROW becomes fully aware of our imbecilic President, no one will be safe. Obviously, Putin knows.
malPOTUS only knows what he heard last night over chocolate cake or saw scrolling-by on FAUXNews. The only way “science” fits into the up/down, right/left, no/yes world of this President is that many scientists and highly-educated citizens oppose his actions and appointments which makes “scientists and highly-educated citizens” the ENEMY.
Normal citizens and Trump voters alike must fully realize the new President is a spoiled, stoned-out, paranoid old man whose early-onset of dementia gives him the mind of a curious ten year-old boy. Certainly other world leaders once getting a dose of Trump realize that?
The country must come to grips with the fact a grave mistake has been made which is far beyond internationally embarrassing. malPOTUS and those around him have unnecessarily placed all of us in greater DANGER especially those West of the Rockies.
• Re-igniting the 1950s Korean War with a nuclear-armed enemy.
• Reversing efforts to mitigate homogenically-induced climate change and the on-going rapid desertification of our West Coast.
• Significant number of undocumented residing there.
• None of the West Coast States went to Trump in the election.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger and UC Berkeley are both there.
More or less in order of demonstrated animus.
Payback for MOAB.
Attorney-General Jeff Sessions is a deeply RACIST “good old boy” who got his job by GROVELING before Trump from day-one. Based on statements like “ . . . I really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the President of the United States . . . “ AG Sessions clearly exposes a deficiency of legal acumen required to be our Attorney General and the pronouncement to place his President above the law is flat-out scary.
Aside from recusing himself from on-going investigations into alleged Russian machinations on behalf of Trump during our elections, Sessions wants to empower local police to become Red Hat door kickers to do his bidding. That way sanctuary cities can more easily fall under martial law and every pot-smoker in America will end up behind bars where they belong.
Sessions is simply an ignorant LIAR and must resign.
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" . . . . . Future generations won’t judge kindly those who let it happen. . . . . "
Sums it up.
Good riddance to an ugly, loathsome propagandist and FAUX feculent stain. Maybe POTUS can give him a job, replacing Sean Spicer as maladministration garbage-mouth. Bill O’Reilly is perfectly qualified as “pussy-grabbing” is SOP even admired by the current White House.
All those Trump loyalists with family on the West Coast may soon discover the ERROR in their ways?
Thomas - If the species makes it to 2060, religions will still be used to divide what remains of the depleted planet, on the MENU. The population will drop according to taste.
The current maladministration will be working hard to keep this from happening.
The U.S. operates three (3) shared air bases in Turkey. The base at Incirlik is necessary for the air wars and bombing in Syria and Iraq especially for recovery and refueling.
link to incirlik.af.mil
POTUS listens to his generals and his open support for another authoritarian leader whose power grab and methods he envies is not hard to understand.
On 15 July 2016, a “coup d'état” was attempted by the military to oust Erdoğan from power. The next day Erdoğan's government somehow managed to regain control of the country. Reportedly, no government official was arrested or harmed, which raised the firm suspicion of a false flag event staged by Erdoğan and his minions.
On 20 July 2016, President Erdoğan declared a state of emergency, citing the recent failed “coup d'état” attempt as justification.
Erdoğan took a narrow lead in a highly-contested referendum which dissolves the Turkish democracy making him the leader in a virtual dictatorship. Erdoğan then declared himself the winner and extended his state of emergency.
malPOTUS likes it and can’t wait for his own “coup d'état” aka Reichstag Fire attempt. What will it be?
Meanwhile, the shared air bases at Incirlik, Izmir and Ankara will endure.
Dividing the pie that was once our government.
Payback for all those workplace bullied votes for Trump.
malPOTUS hides his tax returns for the same reason he won’t disclose WH and Mar a Lago visitor logs.
Back on Twitter for Easter , malPoTUS openly threatens First Amendment Rights, "Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!" the president tweeted in his sunrise service. And boasting "I did what was almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the Electoral College! Now Tax Returns are brought up again?" malPOTUS tweeted. (Twitter-in-Chief LOST the popular vote [us], the Electoral College is primarily CEOs and persons-of-wealth [them].)
Since malPOTUS hires signage, “professional enthusiasm” and private security for his gatherings, he cannot conceive of real people funding themselves to attend a gathering making a reasonable request of the President of the United States and for good reason. To dispel any notion our new President is a multi-decade felony tax evader and launderer of criminal assets.
For decades, US presidents and presidential candidates have released their tax returns voluntarily. Clearly, what Trump is HIDING involves those who cannot allow themselves to be exposed.
With the help of the current DUPED, slavish Christian Republican Party and the $$$ of the 1%, a CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE is infesting our White House.
Irrelevant ODS (Obama Derangement Syndrome) commenting can be overcome by fully realizing President Obama is no longer in office and cannot be re-elected also accepting he was President while a person-of-color.
President Donald J. Trump is a CRIMINAL enterprise who associates with other criminals. Any CRIMINAL of experience would naturally have a genuine need to hide any presence of his CRIMINAL associates and questionable seekers of Presidential approbate.
What crimes? Felony tax evasion, providing cover for criminal assets through “investments” in Trump holdings and machinating with an enemy to gain a Presidency.
It’s easy to appear unpredictable when one doesn’t have a clue.
‘Ooo, let’s try that one, General.’
Meet malPOTUS new favorite toy, the B61-12 nuclear bomb which can be delivered onto a target by a F-16C. An inert bomb was very recently tested in Nevada to evaluate the non-nuclear components like aiming and sensors.
link to upi.com
This is terrible news, folks. And stupid.
malPOTUS has gone from drone strikes in Yemen to Tomahawks in Syria to MOABs in Afghanistan. Guess what goes boom next?
Walt - are you seriously quibbling over the fact that climate change is dramatically eliminating planetary ice?
Silly Steve Bannon’s paltry nationalist thinking no longer impresses malPOTUS who having brought the U.S. to it’s knees, now wants the whole world with a big T on it that can be seen from the moon which will also have a big T on it. Bannon lacks the visions of malPOTUS to his demise; not to mention the audacity to tiff with Vice President Ivanka’s husband.
Someone needs to alert Ivanka about those poor starving Yemeni babies.
Maybe you can get your wish?
Quoting Professor Cole - “My guess is that the Tomahawk strikes were impulsive and a one-off.” The question should be whose impulse? Eric sez Ivanka made daddy do it.
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Ivanka now has her own body count. Seven dead and nine maimed. So far.
“My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom. She is a great person -- always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!”
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 8, 2017
Got it.
It’s not only Donald J. Trump but the entire menagerie of the willfully ignorant installed at the very top of our leadership both Executive Branch and Congressional. Do U.S. citizens with fifth grade educations have that much sway in our country? Apparently, so.
Want to drastically increase airborne pollution? Start a big war where fossil fuel assets can burn uncontrolled for years. Like the ME.
Dr. Dao's face was damaged, two front teeth knocked out, fracture to the zygomatic arch with sinus damage and a broken nose. Paramedics, SO WHAT?
That'll teach him? RIGHT?
Surprised at the "Blame-the-Victim" stance.
THe entire incident is blatantly racsist on every level. There are no laws protecting that type of behavior. None.
OK, Three Not-Asion men pulled an Asian man from the flight.
He was "selected at random" by non-Asian United airlines employees.
Race is ALWAYS a factor in the United States.
Fly United! We'll kick your ass if you don't fly RIGHT, especially if you are NOT Caucasian.
The maladministration would never heed the wisdom of Moqtada al Sadr because he is a Muslim and wears a funny hat.
President Donald J. Trump owns Raytheon stock. Not only can he kill and maim Muslims at will but make personal profit doing so. How Christian of him.
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Apparently, dining at Mar-a-Lago makes POTUS an instant military guru, a 21st Century Clausewitz.
“The reason you don’t generally hit runways is that they are easy and inexpensive to quickly fix (fill in and top)!”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 8, 2017
Got it.
$600 Miliion Whoops
Raytheon makes over $600 million in the deal.
Considered "good" if one lives around Tucson, AZ?
John - At over $1M per missile Raytheon is anointed. link to onwar.com (see technical specifications +)
alec - The Admiral Grigorovich will be shadowed by Russian attack submarines as well.
Trump’s cure for his erectile dysfunction has already cost U.S. taxpayers well over $60M in expended cruise missiles to what end? Tillerson wants the oil in Iraq and the pipelines in Syria. So, ground war in Mesopotamia is inevitable. All that is needed is the trigger.
Consider the carrier group en-route to the Korean Peninsula? Seen as an act of war by North Korea? You bet. Interests on the West Coast of the U.S. will become active targets.
Travis - the Guardian piece if read explains the relevance as do all the links provided. A hyper-stimulated psychopath now has his finger on the button who is being encouraged by those who will never serve nor will any of their kin.
don - More likely North Korea than Russia.
The Russian cruise missile frigate, the Admiral Grigorovich is en-route to Tartus for a little cruise missile sausage party between Vladimir Putin and President Fat Amateur.
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The Russian cruise missile frigate, the Admiral Grigorovich appears to be heavily armored, a design to withstand bombardment, a sea-going tank of serious consequence.
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Dave - But here today in reality, it’s a bloc of corporate Republicans and Corporate- Controlled Media encouraging Trump’s war against Syria. Congressperson Lee is correct. “This is an act of war. Congress needs to come back into session & hold a debate. Anything less is an abdication of our responsibility. link to t.co
All the public “analysis” and discussion aside, Trump made his personal point by sending 59 cruise missiles onto Khayrat air force base in Homs where observers on the ground saw “low combat efficiency” from the attack at a unit cost of $750,000-$1,400,000 depending on the BGM-109 TLAM series and block.
link to onwar.com (see Technical specifications +)
This was a very risky and EXPENSIVE expression of grievance made on our behalf, y’all. Considering, it is a full-blown act of war which will have CONSEQUENCES.
And it is the Trump voters who will bring warfare onto our shores.
In 2013 President Obama submitted for Congressional authorization to use military force against Al Assad.
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He didn’t get it. The born-again Confederate Congress saw to that. Only Christian white people are permitted to kill Muslims at will. POTUS claims to be a Christian and is a shade of white, orange actually. So, it’s all good.
Besides, it is apparent there is real fear in opposing the new maladministration.
Quoting the last paragraph - “In fact, often the “best” solution for the USA is turn on the TV to a nice comedy and ignore what is happening elsewhere.” Where is the fun in that? When you can witness an original dark comedy series provided by the corporate-owned and controlled media 24/7?
R.A. - Quibble not - this isn't a movie and POTUS is a psychopath.
We have all been placed in far greater danger by reacting to this event.
Five days prior to the banned-weapons attack on little Syrian children, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said, “The longer-term status of President Assad will be decided by the Syrian people,” implying a definite shift in U.S. foreign policy away from regime change in Syria. A green light to cross a “red line” from the amateur maladministration.
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Someone really must inform Secretary Tillerson that the Syrian people are not at home to vote. They are fleeing for their lives.
If Fat Trump is the wheeler-dealer he claims to be, he could work with his buddy, Vladimir Putin to pressure Al Assad to stop using banned weapons? Naw, he’d rather blame Obama.
Or if President Tweedldedumb was smart, he would call upon his “great friend” and Twitter-mate, Benjamin Netanyahu for a favor? Bibi has already been giving his air force some serious practice in Syria testing the new Russian air defense systems.
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Either approach would be superior to what the fossil-fuel industry-driven neocon war-mongers and chickenhawks have always wanted, deeper U.S. military involvement on the ground. Undeterred by who is President.
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The point being, no matter how heinous Al Assad’s behavior may be, this is simply not our fight, no matter what the NYT, Reuters, CNN or FAUXNews stuffs in our faces.
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Once the Idiot-in-Chief meets with powerful, more experienced foreign leaders, the credible word will filter-down that the U.S. has indeed elected a dangerous unqualified head-case to be President. Which makes our country very dangerous in the eyes of the world.
The most powerful, death-dealing country on Earth in the hands of a self-indulgent man-child with the temperament of a pre-pubescent boy may be seen as a credible threat not unlike those seen on February 4th, 1938 in Germany or June 17th, 1938 in Japan.
Here is the actual danger.
This state of continuous of warfare for foreign resources has left the continental U.S. basically unscathed by the ravages of war seen in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan where those who remain are left fighting over the ruins of ruins. How much longer can this land remain untouched?
Will the incompetent Trump maladministration bring the wars home to our soil?
Apparently, someone sane told POTUS there are limits and norms he must follow, therefore the belated outcry and not much else.
Fat President Trump is unwilling or unable to accept the fact when events happen on his watch as the President of the United States the ultimate responsibility falls to him.
By rolling up the “red Line” in Syria, Fat Trump openly supports the propped-up-by-Russia Assad regime, a regime which gasses it’s own citizens and subsequently bombs the hospital treating the victims, many innocent little children.
Not too long ago the ultimate goal endeavored by a majority of the U.S. public was to stop the wars and disengage from the occupations in Afghanistan and the Middle East with the understanding it would be a slow process because of the fossil fuel assets involved.
Fat Trump features himself as some kind of a obese Presidential stud who feels horrible death and maiming of brown-skinned Muslim people is what HIS mega-church gun-toting electorate wants. This tacit “Death to All Muslims” attitude amplified by maladministration •••clowns and played-down in media serves to plunge our country further into the ME tarpit and continuous war.