President Donald Trump’s national security adviser said Sunday that the American military withdrawal from northeastern Syria is conditioned on defeating the remnants of the Islamic State group and on Turkey assuring the safety of U.S.-allied Kurdish fighters.
In other words, we’re never leaving.
So we are gonna stay until they can figure out a way to throw the kurds under a bus quietly
Sometimes when you say up, it’s down
Sometimes when you say near, it’s far
Sometimes you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about
As the world has long assumed, presidential announcements about foreign policy are entirely meaningless. Like the domestic ones! Shaking my head. Shaking my emmereffing head. This is literally life and death stuff. It’s like being pretty damn certain a spouse is cheating on you but not knowing how to deal with it or make it stop, and constantly fending off the full sense of shame and rage. This is absolutely a horrible, terrible situation, but it feels sort of normal too, a lot of the time, because with no way to stop it it’s healthier just to turn away. Thinking good thoughts for you, Nancy. We’re counting on you. And by “we” I mean every decent human on earth.
Trump barfed, Bolton is doing clean up.
Bolton said the U.S. has asked the Kurds to “stand fast now” and refrain from seeking protection from Russia or Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government. “I think they know who their friends are,” he added, speaking of the Kurds.
Too late, dude. You already fucked this one up by not warning off your boss from making spontaneously inane comments without any deep understanding of the region. The Kurds are already in talks with Assad…and if you really want to see a geopolitical conflict escalate and get really messed up, you and tRump have already done enormous damage. You’ve already screwed the pooch. None of these idiots in tRumpworld seem to know who our real allies are anymore…and thanks to them, they’ve made enemies if not skeptics of America’s resolve among most of them.
I seem to recall fuckface tweeting most recently that ISIS had been defeated, and yet that is not mentioned.
{AP}. Killing TPM’s brand one story at a time.
Have we impeached the motherfucker yet?
If I ever see McConnell I’m going to tell him that if it were legal I would spit on him. I cannot believe he can sit and allow these things to happen.
“And it’s one two three, what are we fighting for?”
What are you so upset over just because nobody is running the country and nobody knows what the fuck?
So this is the position for the rest of today then?
How long before Captain Kangaroo has Mr. Moose murdered, dismembered, and dissolved in acid?
(“And that Dancing Bear is next!”)
For me, this immediately raises the question, how soon is Bolton going to “resign”?
These news stories are like Whac-A-Mole where we’re the moles, you read one and say “well, that’s nuts” and three stories later you read one and the whacker comes down so you actually feel how crazy and awful it all is.
Humm - so is Donald Trump just the hyperbolic sensationalizing “Commercial spokesperson” - making misleading & exaggerated claims - and the Boltion is the actual absolute policy maker?
ISIS Must Be ‘Gone,’ Kurds Must Be Safe = when pigs fly
Yeah I know. As always it’s very surreal. Trash everywhere - I’ve seen pictures of DC that are god awful. People dying, people who can’t live without a paycheck and all over a temper tantrum thrown by a grown ass man who claims to be president of the united states.
Pretty fucking fucked up.
Coming to a thread near you - Blanche weighs in.
“We’re not going to give in to this radical left — ever!”
I suppose we should be grateful the walkback is in the direction of Sanityville. Even if it’s announced by John Fucking Bolton.