Retaliation
Who could ever have predicted…?
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Just imagine how badly Trump has damaged the suspension on that bus he keeps tossing people under.
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Morales only went once the police forces had already turned on him, and the military decided to also tell him it was time to go.
Trump just sees a lesson that he’s glad that our traditions of civilian leadership over the armed forces means that he won’t face anything like that.
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trump’s latest nightmare thought.
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but its not obrien who’d be retaliating…nice dodge when he claims hes never retaliated against anyone…and at the same time suggests that he was told to can the guy by trump…guarented that trump gets on twitter tonite and starts talking shit about this guy…
My job as the national security adviser is to distill and present to the president the views and options that come from the various departments and agencies.
Distill down to three bullet points. Wait! That’s still too many. Don’t forget pictures.
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Who’s left on the NSC?
Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Judge Jeanine?
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You notice that they can’t resist to blame President Obama for this. Isn’t it curious that the person they dismiss to reduce this “bloated council” is the member who testified to facts against the president. They don’t even attempt to hide their duplicitous motives.
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But wait it gets better…
National security adviser Robert O’Brien said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that “we’re very upset” about Turkey’s decision to purchase the Russian S-400 system, which the U.S. has said could aid Russian intelligence and threaten a vital American aircraft, the F-35 fighter jet. If Turkey doesn’t get rid of the system, O’Brien said, the country will “feel the impact” of sanctions passed by a bipartisan majority in Congress.
Putins securing the deal that trump gave him…wtf
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/10/trump-erdogan-turkey-russian-defense-system-068825
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Double WTF
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Yes someone posted earlier a pithy Twitter user…
seems in Chumpworld, everybody who testifies under oath is a LIAR, everyone who obstructs and refuses to cooperate and tells lies and obfuscates and changes their story is a good guy.
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Sounds like the same politics when I was made redundant back in the recession.
Then they hired a slew of new folk.
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Hahah. O’Brien is such a card. Yeah, Turkey was hurting real bad over the additional Trump sanctions beyond Congressional mandated sanctions (that Trump never applied) that ‘shut down their economy’ due to the Syria-Kurd invasion.
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Absolutely!
No need to appoint Putin, he is there and has been so since Idiot Orange started getting security briefings. Hello journalists?
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I did not watch any CLinton impeachment TV. The Rs today are lining up with everything they have got to TAKE DOWN the witnesses. Did D’s do any of that in the 90s?
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This is about as surprising as the sunrise, and perhaps even less so since it’s cloudy sometimes. But, better for Vindman to be back at DoD than in the wasp’s nest in the WH, where he would have been looking over his shoulder constantly and shunned cruelly. Most likely his DoD career is over too, at least so long as Trump’s in office. A Dem would surely offer to restore him back in an appropriate position, but he might have moved on by then. Vindman knew that this was the likely outcome, yet did the right thing anyway. Guy deserves a Medal of Honor IMO, and a ticker tape parade–on 5th Avenue.
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I would argue that we (the North) ceded the narrative on the Civil War, the part of war that wins the peace. That was, indeed, a grave error because the history has been twisted out of all recognition. Though the ‘noble, lost cause’ is a thing within certain circles, those sentiments are not that of the majority and have lost their luster with each generation.
The fact that we’re seeing the seeds of the Daughters of the Confederacy–all those Confederate statues decorating the landscape–begin to be seriously questioned is a very good sign. Has it taken too long? Without a doubt. But then myths, the fiery, passionate sort, can be very hard to stamp out. That’s why strangling them in the crib is the best antidote.
Yes, Nixon and his legacy was somewhat restored but the stink of the man’s faults, paranoia and resignation (to avoid an ouster) still fouls the air. Reagan is/was a saint only in Republican eyes. As for the rest? They’ll be forgotten, dispensed to the waste bin of memory. Maybe raise their heads in a footnote on the era, not much more. And that disregard? Richly deserved.
That’s not to argue that Republicans often appear to have the upper hand in writing the script in the moment. Honestly? They’re just better at lying, meme making and propaganda. As Dems, we really need to step it up! 
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Heaven forbid there be an honest patriotic person working in the White House.
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