Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 (edited) So Trump has brought in a man who has the potential to be even more unstable than he is. I remember the good old days when he just rabbited on about building walls and mining ‘clean’ coal. Edited March 22, 2018 by Granny Danger 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Might be more to do with stepping up the trade war than appointing Bolton, but still.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Tillerson might have come across as out of his depth his regards to the State Department, but at least he had some form of experience with respect to realpolitik. He knew how the world worked. McMaster, for all his ideological faults, was well respected and instilled a degree of professionalism that was obviously absent under Steve Bannon. With them both gone, we're down to who? John Kelly and James Mattis? They're literally (literally) the only two relatively sane voices left in the White House. And they'll probably be kicked sooner rather than later. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 (edited) There's a firewall that I'm not prepared to pay Murdoch to get through, but apparently this is John Bolton proposing a first nuclear strike against North Korea. On February 28th. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-legal-case-for-striking-north-korea-first-1519862374 Edited March 23, 2018 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Quote Bolton’s arrival in the inner sanctum of the Trump presidency has been a long time coming. Michael Wolff revealed in his inside account of the White House, Fire and Fury, that Trump’s former senior counselor Steve Bannon had urged the president to hire Bolton. So too did the late Fox News executive, Roger Ailes. “He’s a bomb thrower,” Ailes said last year, according to Wolff. “And a strange little fucker. But you need him.” Trump seems now to have come round to that way of thinking. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/22/who-is-john-bolton-trump-national-security-adviser 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 With Mueller homing in on Trump Incorporated and Kushner's stuff; the pornstar, playboy model and about 17 women accusing him of unwanted sexual attacks, and hiring nut jobs as lawyers or National Security advisors, it's really hard to guess which story he's trying to divert us from. Maybe he's doing a favour for his buddy Putin. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Biden and Trump had nine Vietnam deferrals between them.Not sure they've got much fight in them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, mjw said: Biden and Trump had nine Vietnam deferrals between them. Not sure they've got much fight in them. Indeed. Trump telling Biden not to threaten him but mere characters earlier, erm, threatening him, really is something else. For most "politicians. ETA: I see that Bolton is a regular on Fox News. I'm sure that had nothing to do with Trump hiring him... Edited March 23, 2018 by RiG 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forest of Dean Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Trump desperately trying to throw out even any mildly decent statements he made during his campaign A worthless liar to his grave. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Parp Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-lone-dnc-hacker-guccifer-20-slipped-up-and-revealed-he-was-a-russian-intelligence-officer EXCLUSIVE: ‘Lone DNC Hacker’ Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer "Lock her up!" etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 With Bolton brought in and big Iranophobe Pompeo installed as Sec of State, I'm beginning to think Trump's planning a Wag the Dog strategy to distract from the sex scandals and Mueller. Probably just international turmoil rather than actual war, hopefully. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 The list of countries not getting the steel tariffs seems to be getting longer than the countries that are. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 The list of countries not getting the steel tariffs seems to be getting longer than the countries that are. He's probably grouping the ones that speak Mexican, like Puerto Rico, in as one lump. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 This seems a reasonable response. No sensationalism there at all. It's aggressive posturing. Like the rest of Trump's appointees he'll last about 3-4 months. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Going to need a big distraction for this weekend with the gun control marches in every state and the Stormy interview on Sunday.Sackings or pardons? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy boo Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 He's probably grouping the ones that speak Mexican, like Puerto Rico, in as one lump. What language do Mexicans speak?[emoji1] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 What language do Mexicans speak?[emoji1] Some funny one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy boo Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Some funny one.Gracias senor 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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