Discussion: Trump Promises Gear, Praises Self, And Rips The Media In Speech At CENTCOM

Did the emperor bring his personal clappers?

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The Rambler-in-Chief.

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“I said to myself, perhaps the only thing more important to me definitely is the defense of our nation ME!”

Fixed.

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Gag…Lying Losing Rambler…

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The sun rises in the east.

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So…just like every other Trump speech.

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“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”

Viagra sales plummet as NeoCons now using Trump speech as a substitute.

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Like school on a Saturday…

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“We had a wonderful election, didn’t we?” he said. “I saw those numbers, and you like me, and I like you. That’s the way it works.”

Will this never end? He is killing off our democracy a little bit every day. We are not an oligarchy or monarchy or a dictatorship. It’s all transactional to Trump. Conversely, had the military not supported him, would he have unarmed them and defunded their gear?

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Did he trot out “do you think our country’s so innocent?” Maybe ask if anyone in the room had participated in a war crime?

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Oh, I see … the Bowling Green Massacre did happen, but we just didn’t hear about it because the press isn’t reporting on terror attacks.

Hard for the troops to march when they’re up to their necks in bullshit.

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Did he mention his wonderful decision over dinner to launch a strike in Yemen last week?

based on old intelligence?

And media? Yah, that’s how I began every day of my twenty-six years of service, by reading newspapers.

The draft dodger who fought his war against getting venereal disease during the Vietnam years has not one tiny idea of what’s important to the military and our families.

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Trump also doubled down on his promise to lean on NATO members to “pay their fair share.”


How’s Terry May doing?

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Okay, I posted this on the original “WATCH LIVE” thread but I’d like to repost here (apologies if you’ve already seen it)

This exchange between retire Gen. Barry McCaffrey and Hallie Jackson on MSNBC:

JACKSON: MSNBC military analyst and retired four-star general Barry Mccaffrey, who is joining us here. General Mccaffrey, thank you for being here. President Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin is really backing the headlines in a big
way. You heard what he said about Putin and Bill O’Reilly’s comments that Putin is a killer. How concerned are you about not just what the president is saying but the relationship that the U.S. Is going to have with Russia, where that’s going to go from here?

MCCAFFREY: Hallie, I’m actually incredulous that the president would make a statement like that. One could argue that’s the most anti-american statement ever made by the president of the United States, to confuse American values with Putin, who is running a criminal oligarchy, who kills people abroad and at home, who imprisons journalists and takes away business property, who shares it with his former K.G.B. Agents, who invades and seizes crimea in eastern Ukraine, this is an astonishing state of affairs. It’s hard to know what to think about it.

JACKSON: You clearly have very strong feelings about this, general. But you just listened to Vice President Pence defending him.

MCCAFFREY: I’m glad I’m not vice president of the United States. The president is now headed to centcom. The troops he’ll be visiting have been fighting to defend America to 15 years, we’ve had 16,000 killed and wounded to try to protect this country. So for the president of the United States to talk about an equivalency between Putin and our killers is simply unbelievable to me.

h/t Jen Hayden at Kos

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Our butt hurt, wanna be president…he’s gonna spin a nut i swear…and it aint gonna be pretty

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Im not

He did it last year.

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Notice how he never mentions the Constitution, the upholding of which is the only oath he, or any other president, took.

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I’m incredulous that McCaffrey doesn’t know what “incredulous” means.

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