Trump is a bit of a joke but he might be remembered otherwise, see Reagan, who knows he's new to this. But anything that isn't Hillary Clinton had to do and I can totally understand that, there weren't any good options in France lately either
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Trump is a bit of a joke but he might be remembered otherwise, see Reagan, who knows he's new to this. But anything that isn't Hillary Clinton had to do and I can totally understand that, there weren't any good options in France lately either
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So is the white house being contradictory out of stupidity or malice? Is the end game here simply to entrench enough republicans to obstruct any serious investigation?
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From what I can tell, this just follows the usual pattern: Trump gets it in his head to do something, does it without telling people, and then they try to clean up the mess as best they can. Any other president would at least have a PR plan in place, and a cover story that doesn't look like swiss cheese.Originally Posted by Strike For The South
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Trump really ticked them off by failing to leak the decision far enough in advance. Unforgiveable sin by the standards of inside-the-beltway media.
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do you really think that is all that this is?
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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Wooooo!!!
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Trump desperately needs a war to fill the 24 hour news networks with lots of great footage of buildings being blown up and "bad guys" being shot. Then internal opposition can be branded traitors... So really he needs the trigger to be a domestic terrorist attack. ABC stuff.
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All? Of course not. But petulance over such things has always played a role inside the beltway. There is a tendency among many of us, especially politics junkies and policy wonks, to emphasize the rational and downplay the human and irrational -- if for no better reason that the human and the irrational are so much harder to predict and evaluate. But we should remember that all of those involved are very human individuals -- for good and for ill.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
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