Girard442
Girard442's JournalYeah, we're snowflakes. So what? Just don't make us angry.
You wouldn't like us when we're angry.
Is Trump's strategy for Puerto Rico some sort of Final Solution?
Three+ million people need a whole lot of food. Scavenging and tapping stores will only get them so far. Right now, it sounds like the island's capacity to produce food is nearly nil. There don't seem to be any plans or even any will to create a supply chain with the capacity needed, even for bare subsistence.
Is he just going to let them die?
What if a state decided to mount its own aid mission to Puerto Rico?
Obviously, the assets and resources would be an enormous issue, but I was also wondering about the legalities? Could a governor sent the National Guard to a territory on his/her own authority? What about state employees?
On edit: I'm assuming the legislature would be on board with the idea.
I'm thinking about not going to any more baseball games.
I'm not really a fan -- I go with my GF when she takes her grandson. I don't mind going, but it's never my first choice of things to do. I never had an issue with standing with my hand over my heart when the Star-spangled Banner plays. (Yeah, I know there are better songs, but you go to the game with the anthem you have, not the one you want.)
But now -- I feel if I do the traditional thing, I'm pledging loyalty to Twitler, but if I do something else, I'll drag the kid into some nastiness that he doesn't want or deserve or even understand.
Thanks, Trump.
Any word on the condition of Mar-a-Lago?
My gut feeling is that the longer the silence goes on, the more likely it was hammered.
Disclaimer: mostly my gut tells me to cut back on spices and eat more fiber.
Is Trump getting ready to spring the trap?
Charlottesville, Arpaio, and DACA were hammerblows in quick succession. All were red meat to the Deplorables.
September is promising to be a very bad month for Trump. The debt ceiling issue alone looms like an iceberg in the mist. Add a possible government shutdown, the aftermath of Harvey (and possibly Irma), and a no-win situation in North Korea, Trump needs a radical move to survive.
Imagine this: Trump calls Mattis, McMaster, Kelly, and Tillerson into an "emergency" meeting. When they arrive, they find Erik Prince is in attendance along with several of his associates. Trump then relieves them of their duties and they are replaced by people hand-picked by Prince in a temporary emergency capacity. Prince's associates are there to assure there will be no insubordination. Mattis, et al, make brief statements but are not available to answer questions.
Crazy? Sure is. But we live in crazy times.
"...came charging at ????"
Does anyone have a link to a video where you can hear the end of Trump's sentence?So far, the only ones I've listened to have an edit.
Seriously, was any DU'er shocked by Trump's reaction to Charlottesville?
Horrified, disgusted, repulsed, angered, damn right. But shocked? No. Anyone who has listened to him knows exactly what he is -- and that includes his supporters.
Endgame.
Let's say that Kim, in a show of force, launches a test missile on a trajectory that would leave no doubt that North Korea could strike the U.S. mainland if it wanted to. When the generals report this test to Trump, he panics and orders a massive retaliation on North Korea. The generals consider mutiny against their Commander in Chief, but faced with an actual war scenario -- don't. American missiles get launched. Russian and Chinese radars pick up the ICBMs in flight near, or even possibly over their territory (look at a globe) and some commander still with an old Cold War mindset decides this is a use-'em-or-lose-'em scenario and lets fly with his own missiles. With Russian and/or Chinese missiles in flight toward the U.S., the old Mutually Assured Destruction playbooks come out and there is a massive exchange of nuclear weapons.
Game over.
Who, in the Trump world, could you ever see running a winning campaign?
I mean, of the parade of kooks, losers, sieg-heilers, sociopaths and KKKlowns that we've seen, how many can you count that would credibly fit into an organization that could pitch a winning presidential campaign, let alone head up such an organization?
Kind of makes you wonder if the whole show as run by somebody else.
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