How sad it must be to be for a Trump supporter, believing that scientists, teachers, generals, economists, journalists and scholars have devoted their entire lives to deceiving you while a reality TV star with decades of fraud and 15,000 documented lies is your only beacon of truth and honesty.
Carlson advanced the same arguments in private that he made on TV: That Trump was “elected on the promise that he’d avoid war except when absolutely necessary.”
He brought these points up again on Friday, and said Trump won the election “probably because of that promise” of “fewer foreign adventures” and a greater focus “on America’s problems here at home, which are growing.”
“We fought quite a number of wars around the Middle East in recent decades,” Carlson said, listing off the war zones. “In every single place,” he said, "each of these conflicts has turned out to be longer and bloodier and more expensive than we were promised in the first place.
The benefits? Often they’ve been non-existent.
A lot of lectures about how the people we’re killing deserve to die. Certainly they did. Hope that makes you feel better."
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“Yes, Soleimani was linked to the deaths of Americans. Nobody mourns his passing,” Carlson said. "But Mexico and China are also linked to the deaths of Americans.
Each has flooded our country with narcotics from which tens of thousands of Americans die every single year, not that anyone in power cares. So does that mean we get to bomb Oaxaca? Can we start assassinating generals in the People’s Liberation Army?"
Carlson’s primary argument was this: "Before we enter into a single new war, there’s a criterion that ought to be met: Our leaders should explain to us how that conflict will make the United States richer and more secure.
“But at least we finally get to use ol’ 2020 Rock for a year.”
“Whatever happened to 2019 Rock? And 2018 Rock?”
“They were sold to private industry and busted up for some industrial stuff.”
“How about 2021 Rock?”
“Same. They said we couldn’t be sure we’d still be alive then, so they should make as much money as possible before Jesus came back and got mad that we hadn’t exploited everything.”
Iraq’s parliament voted on Sunday to end foreign troop presence in the country, including thousands from the US, and to lodge a complaint with the United Nations over the killing of Gen Qassem Suleimani, the head of Iran’s elite forces.
On Friday, regional tensions were dramatically escalated after Suleimani was killed by a US drone strike in Baghdad.
The extraordinary session on Sunday was led by departing Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, who resigned following months of anti-government protests, but is in office until a replacement has been decided on.
Parliament voted on a five-point action plan that would require the Iraqi government to end the presence of foreign troops in the country, and withdraw its request for assistance from the anti-ISIS global coalition. This would require new legislation to cancel the existing agreement.
Parliament also called on the government to ban the use of Iraqi airspace by any foreign power.
The Iraqi foreign minister has been directed to head to the UN to lodge an official complaint against the US strike.
(Gee, I wonder which country or countries Iraq will align with now?)
Trump and his backers set this up. Step 1) Shred the nuclear treaty between other countries and Iran. Step 2) Escalate it by killing the 2nd highest person in the Iranian govt after the Supreme Ayatollah. Step 3)? World War 3 maybe? To help who—-Trump. No one sensible would want this to happen. It was all Trump’s thinking here.
Remove him from office and send him over to Iran so that he can be tried for treason and murder and attempting to start a war.
These Media Posts will serve as notification to the United States Congress that should Iran strike any U.S. person or target, the United States will quickly & fully strike back, & perhaps in a disproportionate manner. Such legal notice is not required, but is given nevertheless!
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President declaring war by ‘notifying’ Congress.
But not something we should concern ourselves with.
Cheapskate0 over 4 years ago
Got that straight!
RobinHood over 4 years ago
Seems to me now
That the dreams we had before
Are all dead, nothing more
Than confetti on the floor
It’s the end of a decade
In another ten years time
Who can say what we’ll find
What lies waiting down the line
In the end of twenty-nine
Happy New Year
Happy New Year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbor is a friend
Happy New Year
Happy New Year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don’t we might as well lay down and die
You and I
Andersen/Ulvaeus
Sanspareil over 4 years ago
So far, Winslow’s vision is 2020!
braindead Premium Member over 4 years ago
How sad it must be to be for a Trump supporter, believing that scientists, teachers, generals, economists, journalists and scholars have devoted their entire lives to deceiving you while a reality TV star with decades of fraud and 15,000 documented lies is your only beacon of truth and honesty.
Todd Turner
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#TraitorTrump
Silly Season over 4 years ago
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/04/media/fox-news-iran-soleimani/
Carlson advanced the same arguments in private that he made on TV: That Trump was “elected on the promise that he’d avoid war except when absolutely necessary.”
He brought these points up again on Friday, and said Trump won the election “probably because of that promise” of “fewer foreign adventures” and a greater focus “on America’s problems here at home, which are growing.”
“We fought quite a number of wars around the Middle East in recent decades,” Carlson said, listing off the war zones. “In every single place,” he said, "each of these conflicts has turned out to be longer and bloodier and more expensive than we were promised in the first place.
The benefits? Often they’ve been non-existent.
A lot of lectures about how the people we’re killing deserve to die. Certainly they did. Hope that makes you feel better."
✄
“Yes, Soleimani was linked to the deaths of Americans. Nobody mourns his passing,” Carlson said. "But Mexico and China are also linked to the deaths of Americans.
Each has flooded our country with narcotics from which tens of thousands of Americans die every single year, not that anyone in power cares. So does that mean we get to bomb Oaxaca? Can we start assassinating generals in the People’s Liberation Army?"
Carlson’s primary argument was this: "Before we enter into a single new war, there’s a criterion that ought to be met: Our leaders should explain to us how that conflict will make the United States richer and more secure.
Kip W over 4 years ago
“But at least we finally get to use ol’ 2020 Rock for a year.”
“Whatever happened to 2019 Rock? And 2018 Rock?”
“They were sold to private industry and busted up for some industrial stuff.”
“How about 2021 Rock?”
“Same. They said we couldn’t be sure we’d still be alive then, so they should make as much money as possible before Jesus came back and got mad that we hadn’t exploited everything.”
Silly Season over 4 years ago
https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/iraqi-parliament-votes-for-plan-to-end-us-troop-presence-1.960145
Iraq’s parliament voted on Sunday to end foreign troop presence in the country, including thousands from the US, and to lodge a complaint with the United Nations over the killing of Gen Qassem Suleimani, the head of Iran’s elite forces.
On Friday, regional tensions were dramatically escalated after Suleimani was killed by a US drone strike in Baghdad.
The extraordinary session on Sunday was led by departing Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, who resigned following months of anti-government protests, but is in office until a replacement has been decided on.
Parliament voted on a five-point action plan that would require the Iraqi government to end the presence of foreign troops in the country, and withdraw its request for assistance from the anti-ISIS global coalition. This would require new legislation to cancel the existing agreement.
Parliament also called on the government to ban the use of Iraqi airspace by any foreign power.
The Iraqi foreign minister has been directed to head to the UN to lodge an official complaint against the US strike.
(Gee, I wonder which country or countries Iraq will align with now?)
Dtroutma over 4 years ago
Do I hear the notes of “Also Spach Zarathrusta”, and see Bonespurs holding a bone in the air?
Walter Kocker Premium Member over 4 years ago
I’ve got that . . .
steadily depressing,
low down,
mind messing,
looking at the Whitehouse blues . . .
(with apologies to the late, great Jim Croce)
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 4 years ago
Trump and his backers set this up. Step 1) Shred the nuclear treaty between other countries and Iran. Step 2) Escalate it by killing the 2nd highest person in the Iranian govt after the Supreme Ayatollah. Step 3)? World War 3 maybe? To help who—-Trump. No one sensible would want this to happen. It was all Trump’s thinking here.
Remove him from office and send him over to Iran so that he can be tried for treason and murder and attempting to start a war.
mauser7 over 4 years ago
“When the going gets weird, the Weird turn pro. (not original to me, but I don’t recall where I first heard it)
braindead Premium Member over 4 years ago
Trump tweet:
These Media Posts will serve as notification to the United States Congress that should Iran strike any U.S. person or target, the United States will quickly & fully strike back, & perhaps in a disproportionate manner. Such legal notice is not required, but is given nevertheless!
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President declaring war by ‘notifying’ Congress.
But not something we should concern ourselves with.