Betsy De Vos too, Ivanka, Jared, all of them immensely experienced career politicians. Fml.
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Betsy De Vos too, Ivanka, Jared, all of them immensely experienced career politicians. Fml.
He’s messed that second tweet up.
How will General Mattis polish this turd?
He was in such a hurry to get that tweet out, he probably only just heard some stuff and was excited to let everyone know
Maybe because the other countries don't go often to war like USA does.
We don't know the actual outcome on North Korea though, there were always going to be bumps along the road in such complex negotiations, and it was definitely always going to be the case that after the initial icebreaker the North Koreans were going to set out their stall in a combative and polar manner with a view to future concessions.
Trump is actually far more likely to have a transformational entrepreneurial personality than transactional.
Bumps along the road, such as them verifiably ignoring what was apparently agreed.
They've set out their stall by just continuing what they were doing before.
I'm so fecking sick of everyone falling over to excuse "heartland" Americans for the despicable choice they made, and their continued xenophobic support of the buffoon in chief. They're not the only demographic in the United States to be desperate. Actually, going by history, they've had it light, compared to African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans... Would black people be excused for putting Louis Farrakhan in office based on the centuries of shit they've seen in this country? Would they feck.
Yet every week, some journalist puts out some think piece on why we need to understand things from the perspective of some guy in bumfeck Nebraska.
There's a right and a wrong way to approach negotiations. You don't start by having a self-aggrandizing media opportunity with a foreign leader and in the process give him the respect of meeting with the US President only to get nothing in return. You start by having lower level staffers make contact with the foreign government to hammer out an outline of things the actual leaders will agree on before allowing the President to meet with Kim. Otherwise there is absolutely nothing in it for the US other than a shallow photo op that gives Kim - a totalitarian dictator, the legitimacy and respect of meeting with the President of the United States.
Nebraska isnt the midwest.
And it's not about excusing or even understanding. Do you want to win elections or do you want to scold voters?
I am amazed of late at how poor white people believe rich conservatives have their best interests in mind.
That's the thing though. Rich libs dont have their best interests in mind either. And if both major parties are run by rich elites who dont like or understand these people, then they might as well vote along cultural lines.
I understand your frustration but a lot of these people voted for Obama. I am not defending their continued support, I am saying a section of them had rational reasons for voting for him. If your city's industry is getting decimated and a candidate says he will use his power to bring those jobs back, some would believe and vote for him for that single reason.
This guy is a fool. Desperate to look like he's not been played.
“Heartland” Americans have a decreasing life expectancy, in part due to ‘deaths of despair.’ This is the only known time this has happened in a developed nation outside of ex-Soviet Bloc nations proceeding the fall of the USSR.
Pretty safe to safe there’s a valid concern for the desperation there...
Basically what's happened.
Kim: Trump, we want to denuclearise, can we meet?
Trump: That's good. Lets take pictures, it's going to be great, it's going to be fantastic. You can have this and that. My SoS will meet you for details.
Pompeo: You've promised to denuclearise, how and when?
Kim: What do you mean by denuclearise?
Pompeo: Complete removal of nukes and capabilities.
Kim: That's not what we mean. You people are gangsters.
Kim: Trump, we want to denuclearise, can we meet?
Trump: That's good. Lets take pictures, it's going to be great, it's going to be fantastic. You can have this and that. My SoS will meet you for details.
Pompeo: You've promised to denuclearise, how and when?
Kim: What do you mean by denuclearise?
Pompeo: Complete removal of nukes and capabilities.
Kim: That's not what we mean. You people are gangsters.
Kim: "Trump, we're not going to denuclearise but we'll tell you that we are going to denuclearise."
Trump: "That's good. Let's take pictures, it's going to be great, it's going to be fantastic. You can have this and that. My SoS Ric Flair will meet you for pizza."
Trump: "That's good. Let's take pictures, it's going to be great, it's going to be fantastic. You can have this and that. My SoS Ric Flair will meet you for pizza."
This again... Those % numbers are just what each country chooses to spend on its own military as % of GDP and are nothing to do with NATO.
If he wants to talk direct contributions to NATO then Germany contributes three times more than the US as a % of GDP, so does France, so does the UK.
Putin's wish list:
1. Get the NATO allied US forces out of Europe
2. Repeal the Magnitsky act
Looks like the dog is waving its tail in the right direction.
He doesn't understand politics. He looks at every single issue as it's own stand alone thing. He applies his own narrative and that becomes fact.
It beggars belief that he can't get into the idea that all of these parts work together.
Contract?
There are of course genuine causes for concern, and naturally people are often products of where they've come from and from that perspective it's possible to have some sympathy, because people are nuanced and even plenty of people who have some horrible opinions aren't necessarily always bad, per se - but I do think @adexkola makes a fair point that certain Americans are being excused for their poor political choices to an extent that's far greater than any other sect of the country. And from a certain perspective...these people are voting for a party who advocated (or at least are supposed to) advocate individual freedoms and personal responsibility, while blaming all their problems and issues on other people. I can see why a lot of people get pissed off at the excuses being made.
The Supreme Court nominee will be Brett Kavanaugh.
Word is Trump wanted an Ivy League guy.
Yep, think he's the only one of the 4 front runners to have went to an ivy league establishment.
Also, Kavannagh is generally viewed as the least conservative which is why the right wing have spent the past week trying to convince Trump to go with Coney Barrett. I think Trump just wants someone who will get approved without any major drama.
WH has done a good job at making sure the name never got leaked.
some people are going to look at his previous opinions or articles or whatever but not me. i just want to say that this guy is a virgin
tim kaine has the brain of a goldfishKavanaugh was involved in Bush v Gore.
So, is Kavanaugh similar to Kennedy in terms of how conservative they are and how they will vote?
Should the Dems allow this pick to go through?
Should the Dems allow this pick to go through?
Is there a way that this can be stopped?
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