Skydog wrote: 




Yep, I see it the same way.

 sirdroseph wrote 
I have to agree somewhat, it does seem like our foreign policy is designed to make the world safe for our companies to do business in and they justify it by creating jobs around the world to create stability therefore creating peace.
It's the "new world order" as first brought to our attention by G.H.W. Bush  and endorsed by both Dems and the GOP
But they forgot or didn't care about working people in this country hence the Bernie and Trump phenoms

 Red_Dragon wrote: 





I don't know, seems like Trump has a legitimate point with this one, our current foreign policy is all kind of f*cked up as it stands now so there is that....... I also find it amusing the sudden empathy towards the Chinese government embraced by democrats as of late. lol Or in other words, if receiving a congratulatory call from another government is grounds for war, you're gonna have a bad time!

TIME Man Of The Year award goes to,.........our President-Elect.
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 "Because of Donald John Trump, whatever happens next, it will never be like it was before."
                                               -TIME Magazine 

'nuff said

 Red_Dragon wrote: 

I think Dubya finally realized he was a world-class f*#!up when someone leveled with him after he left office. That would explain why he decided to retire from public life for a while and "paint."

Trump? He's never gonna figure it out.  

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Flynn's son did get fired, eventually. He still thought the Comet Ping Pong pedophile "story" should be treated as legit, even after the guy from NC fired a rifle inside the restaurant. 


Trump Fires Adviser’s Son From Transition for Spreading Fake News

The uproar over Mr. Flynn’s Twitter post cast a harsh spotlight on the views that he and his father, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, aired on social media throughout the presidential campaign. Both men have shared fake news stories alleging that Mrs. Clinton committed felonies, and have posted their own Twitter messages that at times have crossed into Islamophobia.

But their social media musings apparently attracted little attention from Mr. Trump or his transition team before a North Carolina man fired a rifle on Sunday inside Comet Ping Pong, which was the subject of false stories tying it and the Clinton campaign to a child sex trafficking ring.

Hours after the episode, the younger Mr. Flynn, 33, went on Twitter to say that until “Pizzagate” was proved false, it remained a story.

drainin' that swamp...

Did Donald Trump's Carrier deal actually save 'less than half' of jobs headed to Mexico?

 kcar wrote:

But wait, kids! That phone call wasn't a mistake. Trump and Taiwan's government planned it for months.

 
Trump’s Taiwan phone call was long planned, say people who were involved

(excerpt):

Donald Trump’s protocol-breaking telephone call with Taiwan’s leader was an intentionally provocative move that establishes the incoming president as a break with the past, according to interviews with people involved in the planning.

The historic communication — the first between leaders of the United States and Taiwan since 1979 — was the product of months of quiet preparations and deliberations among Trump’s advisers about a new strategy for engagement with Taiwan that began even before he became the Republican presidential nominee, according to people involved in or briefed on the talks.

The call also reflects the views of hard-line advisers urging Trump to take a tough opening line with China, said others familiar with the months of discussion about Taiwan and China.



 Red_Dragon wrote:

  You know you are in Hell when a satirical piece like this New Yorker squib is a half-step away from what really is going on in Ben's mind and the Trump inner circle.  

BEN CARSON WARNS THAT BIBLE MAKES NO MENTION OF HOUSING OR URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Its been almost a month, will I ever get used to Trump? Fuck no. Its like watching a toddler playing with a gun - you're always nervous.

Bill Maher on Twitter

Architects offer flying pigs to deal with Chicago's Trump sign

 

Learning on the job...before it's begun!  I'm sure this proposed hotel deal in Taiwan had nothing to do with the phone call...

 
Trump Speaks With Taiwan’s Leader, a Likely Affront to China

Washington — President-elect Donald J. Trump spoke by telephone with Taiwan’s president on Friday, a striking break with nearly four decades of diplomatic practice that could precipitate a major rift with China even before Mr. Trump takes office.

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The White House was not told about Mr. Trump’s call until after it happened, according to a senior administration official. 

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But the potential fallout from the conversation was significant, the administration official said, noting that the Chinese government issued a bitter protest after the United States sold weapons to Taiwan as part of a well-established arms agreement.

Mr. Trump’s call with President Tsai is a far bigger provocation, though the Chinese government did not issue an immediate response. Beijing views Taiwan as a breakaway province and has adamantly opposed the attempts of any country to open official relations with it.

 Proclivities wrote: 
re: Mattis for DoD.

Sen. Gillebrand of NY has come out with a pledge to block the waiver.

Oh, and he is not a billionaire.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Your second link is busted. Here:   

Trump to nominate retired General Mattis for Pentagon   

From the story:

While the nomination of the 66-year-old Mattis would likely be popular among U.S. forces, it would have to clear a bureaucratic hurdle.

Because he retired only in 2013, Mattis would need the U.S. Congress to waive a requirement that a defense secretary be a civilian for at least seven years before taking the top job at the Pentagon. His impressive combat record, however, may deter some Senate Democrats from trying to block his nomination.

kurtster and perhaps others mentioned that they voted for Trump because he called for a non-interventionist foreign policy during the campaign. Trump's supposed desire might be hard to achieve with a retired Marine Corps general sporting the nickname "Mad Dog" as Sec. of Defense and an aggressive former three-star Army general as NSA (Michael Flynn).

For instance, both men are fiercely opposed to the nuclear arms limitation deal that Iran struck with the permanent member nations of the United Nations Security Council, Germany and the European Union. It's not clear to me how these former generals would kill that deal with Iran and block the country from building its own nuclear weapons once the deal was dead. There are no real technological hurdles anymore. 

My guess is that Trump thinks having generals on his national security team will deflect any criticism about his foreign policies. Apparently he didn't learn from our experience in Iraq that the US cannot go it alone and that military intervention can create massive, long-lasting problems. 

he answers his critics and find cabinet appointments,...
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 ScottN wrote: 
I believe Congress would need vote to waive the National Security Act of 1947: 

Secretary of Defense
Sec. 202.
(a) There shall be a Secretary of Defense, who shall be appointed from civilian life by the
President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate: PROVIDED, That a person
who has within ten years been on active duty as a commissioned officer in a Regular
component of the armed services shall not be eligible for appointment as Secretary of Defense.

I think the time period was later reduced from ten to seven years, but still, Mattis would be ineligible unless it is waived - which was only done once before.  Who knows what can happen anymore though?