Discussion: NYT: New National Security Adviser Breaks With Trump On Views Of Islam

I’m lucky that it was always easy for me—grammar and spelling—but I know many people who have had a lifetime of trouble with English, one way or another.

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McMaster. The WH’s token, like smart, person.

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I almost didn’t graduate high school because one of the requirements was passing a spelling test by correctly spelling 100 words. I took the test 7 times before I passed, always misspelling different words. I am pretty sure I had/have a learning disability. I went on to get an advanced degree in engineering but have struggled with spelling my whole life. Thank God for spell check.

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English spelling is bizarre, to say the least.

There are good reasons for it historically, but that doesn’t make it much easier.

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Certainly sounds desirable but the answer is no, of course, under both the 25th Amendment and the more banal operation of the vice presidency ( resignation, death, removal).

OT: Reminds me of the time -many years ago- when my younger sister asked if a hunger was one who hungs. It was a vocabulary word or some such but it still makes me laugh to think about it.

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And they wouldn’t have had to bother with governing, which seems to be quite the challenge for them.

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I think McMaster would be able to stare down Donald J Weaselhead any day of the week.

Non-radical adviser breaks with radical POTUS on non-existent radical Islam.

Is that about it?

In this administration, advice is a one way street. Either repeat and reinforce the company line or said advice is fake and unnecessary.
True advice has the chance of becoming policy or at least a part of it, part of the foundation, that is to say.
In Trumpistan, it’s adversarial to advise against the prerequisite thereby rendering advice and advisers to the very serious pen of clowns.

Okay, I’m really tired of the kakistocracy now. Is this how they do it? Just erode everything with the the steady shitstream?

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I’ll say! Now they’ll have to be the grownups and deal with actual problems facing this country, the worst of which is the damage the self-absorbed, know-nothing, constantly boastful Trump is doing.

English is like the proverbial “melting pot”. There are words and constructions from many languages all mashed up together, and it absorbs more all the time.

The White House is going to need to install a revolving door at this rate.

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Trump bubble contaminated by reality. Panic!

I think and hope that you are right. My take on the comment is that McMaster is trying to keep the competent staff from bailing, so he has some chance of maintaining a functioning agency.

I think also that McMaster is deliberately putting the administration in the position of choosing either to let him do the job the way he thinks it should be done, or to tell him to go. It’s a good move. Trump is very vulnerable after campaigning on national security and having his his first choice of NSA revealed as a lying nutter.

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Grigori Y. Bannon might have met his match with H.R. As a former soldier, I can tell this guy has brass balls and brains. He even looks intimidating. Would love to see fat, boozy, artery-clogged, melanoma-ridden Grigori just shoved a little by the General. Just a little.

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I do believe if you say Donald Trump three times in a mirror, his ghostly hair will reach through and attach itself to your face and you will die of Clairol Golden Blonde toxicity.

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I wonder if either Gen. McMaster or DT knows that Muhammad Ali Jr was detained for 2 hours when returning from Jamaica recently. He’d been traveling with his mother the 1st wife of the famous boxer. Mr Ali was detained and questioned repeatedly about his religion. This is an American Citizen after all. It seems that DT’s Muslim ban is in full force and extends to anyone of that faith. I am hoping that Mr Ali sues the pants off CPB.

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SUCK on THAT, Rudy Ghouliani!

BTW, what has happened to Rudy and his side kick Newty. Have they been swallowed by a sink hole?

Giuliani is probably in the dog house for providing ammunition to those who said that the President’s immigration Executive Order was illegal.

And Gingrich’s last appearance was on, of course, Fox News, loudly proclaiming that “this is a real war” against the media.

I think this is a real war. I think the people on the other side, whether they’re the demonstrators at the rally, or the college professors, or many of the senior reporters, they are the other team.

The General is making Trump look weak.

Also, I wonder whether Preshitident Trump repeated the phrase Radical Islamic Terrorism several times at CPAC as part of his anti-terrorism strategy.

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