Discussion: Trump's 'America First' Security Strategy Pushes For Competing Nations

While the administration often says that “America First” does not mean “America Alone,” the national security strategy makes clear that the United States will stand up for itself even if that means acting unilaterally or alienating others on issues such as trade, climate change and immigration.

So, it means we really are changing our policy to “America Alone.”

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"Our leaders engaged in nation building abroad while they failed to build up and replenish our nation at home,” he said, pointing to the economy’s strong performance and predicting even better under his policies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/12/14/comparing-the-trump-economy-to-the-obama-economy/

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So the GOP desired “First Dude” got assaulted by his own son. If the attack was launched by anyone else, no doubt it would be an Obama inspired conspirator as the culprit. (With a plea for send us money to fight this on going threat.)

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Forget Back to the Future - Trump is setting the dial back to … 1938, or perhaps 1915?

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Hair Furor;

You should brush up on the Supremacy Clause. Those international agreements have the same force of law as the Constitution itself, and supercede any laws or executive orders you sign.

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Ahem.

Track is not First Dude’s son. You need only to look at his picture next to the picture of First Dude’s former best friend who lived across the hall from Sarah while FD was on the pipeline freezing his ass off.

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And just wait there’ll be another “America Alone II,” the sequel. OMG they’re up to #6!

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I remember reading about a house party in Wasilla where the Palin-Clampett clan showed up…hammered… and proceeded to start a fight with Sister Sarah yelling at the top of her lungs “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM”???
Lovely folks them Clampetts.

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They never disappoint and that’s a fact.

@darrtown - did you read one of the replies Sarah got to that? A woman at the party yelled: We know who you are - fuck you Palins. We don’t need you. (more or less - I don’t remember exactly but that’s the gist.)

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When Jethro…err…donnie spoke the words of the Oath of Office they were “just words” to him. He still today has zero idea what they mean or how it affects him personally or us collectively. He has never read any part of the Constitution other than what he’s heard about the 2nd amendment. He’s clueless about Article 6 and very likely doesn’t know it exists

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Strategy document = America’s First to Fire. New policy brought to you by the unbalanced in command.

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Donald Trump, Jared Kushner and Seb Gorka have decided that the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict over land is just a hoax, like Global Warming and “this Russia thing, with Trump and Russia.” Therefore let us pour gasoline on the fire and declare that we have learned that the real problem is just the jihadis. Who generated spontaneously in that region with absolutely no historical antecedents in the use of terrorism to achieve political aims.

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Donny sounds like he’s concerned that the cold war will be reducing the air temperature at Maro-lego. Also sounds like his new ‘document’ is all he needs to obliterate anybody, anytime, anywhere if he doesn’t like the way you’re playing his game.

Bet’cha my next Social Security check trump hasn’t read any of this

Bullet points at best. And I also bet he did not write the introduction that bears his signature either.
I have the pdf and will peruse the thing after dinner.

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The speech was weaponized stupidity, especially the argument on NATO. No one writes the US gov’t a check.They just increase their defense budgets up to 2% of GDP. The Trump presidency is about giving a 5 year old the keys to a car and everyone in the car is paralyzed and can’t stop the reckless horror that ensues.

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Nice Trump press release…uhhhh I mean AP article.

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Obama’s?

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And not-so-off-topic:

Haley says the resolution was “insulting”. I could go into what is actually insulting, but we all already know it’s the fact that a deranged portion of our electorate put an orange turd into the WH.

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Alt headline: Scary Friendless Man Sure America Is Better Off Scary and Friendless

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If Donnie is competing for the bottom, game over… We win…

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I would prefer that the media not make the words “United States” interchangeable with something trump says/does. I also object to the words “president” and “trump” anywhere near each other in a sentence.

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