Red Mosquito

"We should have taken the oil. You wouldn't have ISIS if we took the oil."
Critics have said that taking Iraq's oil would have been stealing from civilians and thus a war crime, a violation of international law. The President repeatedly campaigned on bombing Iraq oil fields to keep ISIS from profiting off of oil.
"Can you believe that? Who are the critics that say that? Fools. I don't call them critics. I call them fools," Trump said.
But the President said the US has spent trillions fighting ISIS, but that could have been avoided had the Americans just taken the terrorists oil.
Trump originally said that "maybe we'll have another chance," but he was noncommittal about what he specifically meant.
"We'll see what happens. I mean, we're going to see what happens. You know, I told you and I told everybody else that wants to talk, when it comes to the military, I don't want to discuss things. I want to let -- I want to let the action take place before the talk takes place," he said.

Simple Torture wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

washing machine wrote:Looks like whoever transcribed the inauguration speech on whitehouse.gov slightly amended that line that matched up with a quote from The Dark Knight Rises.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/inaugural-address

we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the American People.

This is really fucked up

It does say "As Prepared for Delivery" at the top, which means he just skipped over that word while reading, probably.

4/5 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

McParadigm wrote:The State Department’s entire senior management team just resigned

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/jos ... fce986814e

Part of me loves seeing people refuse to participate in this administration. I love seeing people walk out. But at the same time, if all the people who oppose Donald and his bat-shittery leave, who fights him? Is this really a good thing? He's just going to replace these openings with people who will follow him straight into hell, right?

I might be misremembering, but I believe all of those who resigned have senior positions that were confirmed by the Senate and therefore serve at the pleasure of the president. If that's the case, they weren't long for their jobs anyway.

All are career foreign service officers who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Okay I think I'm ready for a violent overthrow now

Strat wrote:http://www.nbcnews.com/video/ryan-explains-how-obama-trump-differ-in-executive-order-approach-863407171813

House Speaker Paul Ryan says former President Obama used executive orders “to exceed his power,” and that President Trump is “restoring the proper balance.”


oh, okay. Gotcha. Thanks

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:This is something:

Jesus Christ

McParadigm wrote:LOL @ Mexico will pay for the wall by Americans paying more for goods.

Birds in Hell wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:This is something:

Jesus Christ

The headline is inaccurate, in that the article states Trump has ordered a public record be made available of crimes committed by illegal immigrants - not simply immigrants.

I can see the argument that it could arguably place people at risk, depending on the level of detail provided, but I can also see (being charitable) that it assists in creating conditions whereby people who've immigrated illegally are motivated to leave and a provides a disincentive towards immigrating illegally.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:This is something:

Jesus Christ

The headline is inaccurate, in that the article states Trump has ordered a public record be made available of crimes committed by illegal immigrants - not simply immigrants.

I can see the argument that it could arguably place people at risk, depending on the level of detail provided, but I can also see (being charitable) that it assists in creating conditions whereby people who've immigrated illegally are motivated to leave and a provides a disincentive towards immigrating illegally.

Trump has been purposely skewing the narrative towards xenophobic hate since he started his campaign. This is going to make it so much worse.