So it would seem that Trump abandoned a US military base to be taken by Russia, on Vladimir Putin's birthday. This is a true thing that actually happened in the real world in which we live. There's no point even saying it anymore, but just imagine if it had been Obama.
It makes me want to vomit. I wonder if this can be considered a war crime?
No doubt Trump has this woman's blood on his hands!
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When the night has been too lonely, and the road has been too long,
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong,
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows,
Lies the seed, that with the sun's love, in the spring becomes The Rose.
The dumbest thing I've ever bought
was a 2020 planner.
"Does anyone ever think about Denethor, the guy driven to madness by staying up late into the night alone in the dark staring at a flickering device he believed revealed unvarnished truth about the outside word, but which in fact showed mostly manipulated media created by a hostile power committed to portraying nothing but bad news framed in the worst possible way in order to sap hope, courage, and the will to go on? Seems like he's someone we should think about." - Dave_LF
That might be the most bizarre presidential communication to another world leader that I have ever seen.
And I won't even get into the meeting he had today with congressional leaders, in which he reportedly insulted Speaker Pelosi as a "third-rate politician" and called Gen. Mattis the most overrated general of all time.
I'm going to move the posts about impeachment to the impeachment thread.
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
Maybe (probably) I don't understand the full context of that letter, but isn't it ultimately a good thing he's not basically saying "do whatever you want, I won't stop you"?
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
Voronwë, I saw that and came here thinking I'd post it in the WTF thread. It reads like something a middle-schooler would write as a prop for a school play. It's like a ransom note in a police comedy. At first, I took as seriously as the fake Obama birth certificate done up on a Starbucks bag. But apparently it's real. And Edrogan is supposed to take it seriously? If I were Erdogan, I'd call Melania and beg her to take her husband to a doctor.
I kinda wondered if it was a 'cover (his ass)' letter to mollify critics of his earlier phone call with Erdogan in a *wink-wink, nod-nod* sort of way. No executive worth their salt would write such a letter.
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
It's a disgrace, is what it is. I saw some statistics .. the turnover rate in the Trump administration for top officials has been 80% (and I'll add that they don't seem to be replacing them with quality experienced people). We are basically running without a government. And we have an 'executive' who would be booted out of any top company. I think Rex Tillerson had it about right.
The statistics also show that Trump has spent more than 1/3 of his presidency thus far at Trump properties (which puts money back in his pocket).
He has golfed more than any president (something he criticized others for). There is a fact page for golf. Actually there are a couple of golf tracker sites, here's another. (and there are others.)
“I stand before you ... really having achieved greatness. I mean, I’m not just an overrated general. I am the greatest, the world’s most overrated," Mattis quipped.
Mattis continued: “I am honored to be considered that by Donald Trump because he also called Meryl Streep an overrated actress. So I guess I’m the Meryl Streep of generals. And frankly, that sounds pretty good to me. And you do have to admit, that between me and Meryl, at least we’ve had some victories."
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
The dumbest thing I've ever bought
was a 2020 planner.
"Does anyone ever think about Denethor, the guy driven to madness by staying up late into the night alone in the dark staring at a flickering device he believed revealed unvarnished truth about the outside word, but which in fact showed mostly manipulated media created by a hostile power committed to portraying nothing but bad news framed in the worst possible way in order to sap hope, courage, and the will to go on? Seems like he's someone we should think about." - Dave_LF
Mattis was the guest at some sort of formal roast/dinner. I would presume he had someone write his speech for him.
Something else I appreciated, he said he will not be silent (about his time in the Trump White House) forever and that he was just about done with therapy. He made some sort of joke that his time in the Trump WH was almost 3,000 years in dog (I presume 'mad' dog) years. I also presume from that comment that he may be a witness in the impeachment trial.
“What was working in Syria was that for very little investment, the Kurds were doing all the fighting, the vast majority of the dying, and we were providing intelligence and fire support assistance. And we were winning,” added the retired four-star Marine general.
A bit cynical, but probably accurate.
Good luck to us finding allies in the region next time.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
