Secretary of State Tillerson out amid clashes with Trump, to be replaced by CIA Director Pompeo

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  1. PeppermintTwist

    PeppermintTwist Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    What is particularly interesting about this is that Putin must have been very pleased with Tillerson as Secretary of State...
    Was the poisoning of these two people just a bridge too far for Tillerson to accept?
     
  2. PrincipleInvestment

    PrincipleInvestment Well-Known Member

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    Your text is plain, and nearly entirely monosyllabic. It isn't a Rorschach examination blotter.
     
  3. TomFitz

    TomFitz Well-Known Member

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    No, Obama never staged a Cabinet meeting where he forced Cabinet Secretaries to fawn over him and kiss his ring in front of televsion cameras.

    Trump did. He clearly loved it.

    He will never understand how small and weak it made him look.
     
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    PARTIZAN1 Well-Known Member

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    Answer the question! Where did I say anything about hatred?
     
  5. TomFitz

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    Change the channel on the TV for a change, you might learn something about the world.

    Russia is behind the chemical attacks and barrel bombs in Syria.

    The Ukranian invasion continues.

    Russian intelligence operatives have been caught or forestalled from trying to interfere in election in Italy, Germany, France and the UK as well as others.

    They just poisoned two people in London.

    They launced the largest state sponsored cyber attack in history against the US in 2013, a war which is ongoing.

    Evidently you live in a cave.
     
  6. Cubed

    Cubed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Well when you allow the majority of diplomats to leave, and don't fill their positions, then cut the budget by 30%, you don't exactly show the country your support for the Foreign Office.

    http://time.com/5016774/trump-ambassadors-state-department-lost-60-percent-afsa-barbara-stephenson/
    http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...ment-wracked-by-departures-under-trump-report
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/...d-the-unraveling-of-the-state-department.html
     
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  7. PARTIZAN1

    PARTIZAN1 Well-Known Member

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    True !! You speak the truth ! Trump had his cabinet on their virtual knees asking their Lying king which side of his butt he wanted kissed as if he was Kim Dung Un of North Korea. No wonder Don admires Kim so much.
     
  8. PARTIZAN1

    PARTIZAN1 Well-Known Member

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    Has anyone else noticed that those of us who criticized Trump's decision to fire Tillerson expressed ourselves for the most part in intelligent adult and honest ways. Some Trump if not all Trump supporters expressed their "support" for Trump's decision by called those critical of trump leftists or claimed that it was leftist to be critical of trump's decision ?

    Why is it that so many Trump supporters cannot figure out how to intellectually support their guy but can only accuse innocent people of being leftists?

    I do not see that type of behavior from non Trump supporters. Why is that ?
     
  9. PARTIZAN1

    PARTIZAN1 Well-Known Member

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    Too ye PRAVDA !!! That is the truth!!
     
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  10. toddwv

    toddwv Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Oh, Trump HAS surrounded himself with people that support his ideas.

    That's why so many of them are under investigation for financial crimes and colluding with hostile foreign interests among other crimes.

    For instance, just a typical example of the type of person that Trump surrounds himself with:

    Longtime Trump aide fired over financial crime investigation
    https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/politics/john-mcentee-white-house-security-clearance/index.html

    Trash in, trash out. They should put a revolving door on the White House to make it easier for the lobbyists, criminals, and Russian-friendly conspirators to move in and out.

    Michael Flynn
    Katie Walsh
    K.T. McFarland
    Michael Dubke
    Sean Spicer
    Michael Short
    Tera Dahl
    Mark Corallo
    Reince Priebus
    Anthony Scaramucci
    Derek Harvey
    George Sifakis
    Ezra Cohen-Watnick
    Carl Icahn
    Steve Bannon
    Sebastian Gorka
    Rich Higgins
    William Bradford
    Keith Schiller
    Tom Price
    Jamie Johnson
    John Feeley
    Rick Dearborn
    Jeremy Katz
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    Omarosa Manigault Newman
    Taylor Weyeneth
    Rob Porter
    David Sorensen
    Brenda Fitzgerald
    Rachel Brand
    Hope Hicks
    Josh Raffel
    Gary Cohn
    Rex Tillerson
    John McEntee

    I've seen Walmarts with better employee retention than the Trump White House.
     
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    Really? I didn't know people felt that way. Thank you for the update.
     
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    Except you lack evidence. Does not matter to you, does it? Well, that is very revealing as to what you are in reality.

    SO, what do you do with the evidence, from that phone call made to the american ambassador in Ukraine, where Nuland was on behalf of the obama admin, who would replace their elected president after the coup? Or do you just choose to ignore facts? See, that is the trouble with you. Facts do not matter, but heresay does. Need a link to that phone call so you can hear it? Of course not! For facts are just an inconvenience. But this is also insanity. Or something which is nefarious. I would rather you be just a bit crazy rather than being the other option.

    They may have poisoned those two in london. Obama droned an american citizen. How is it different? It isn't and if you had a clue, you would understand the self evident.

    We have only interfered in foreign elections 80 plus times. And how exactly did russia interfere in ours? Bought some ads on social media. Except it was wasted money and time. So it was an attempted interference, instead of actually intefering for it changed nothing. If this is all russia has, it is one helluva joke. Perhaps we should also stop our own? Obama tried to overtly interfere in Israel's election. That is fine in your book? Of course it is. Hypocrisy is all you have sir. Use it on a less astute intellect. Not me.
     
  13. Egoboy

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    Don't want to hijack my own thread, but...... seems to be dying out....... and I don't see a thread on the UK situation ......sooooooo

    SNIP
    Russia will not co-operate with the UK inquiry into how an ex-spy and his daughter were poisoned until it has been given a sample of the substance used, its foreign minister has said.
    ENDSNIP

    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43381880

    Sound familiar to the response to the 13 Mueller indictments??

    SNIP
    “I have to see first what they’ve done. Give us materials, give us information,” Putin said in an interview with NBC TV aired late on Friday, according to an English voice-over of his words.
    ENDSNIP

    https://nypost.com/2018/03/03/putin-tells-us-to-show-evidence-of-election-meddling/

    Sounds like a lot of the RW trolls on this site.... show us proof.... show us proof..... SQUAWK.... show us proof...
     
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    Because Trumpettes, by and large, are holding their President to the same standard as an internet troll. Value is derived from how much hatred he garners.
     
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    Oh this is an extremely classic Russian tactic. They pulled the same stunt when the Syrian regime was accused of using chemical weapons.

    "Show us your evidence. We will look it over ourselves. And then do nothing."
     
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    And once again...
     
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    Apparently there were as many as 21 people with medical complaints stemming from Russia's chemical weapon attack in London.
     
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    I certainly have no animus against Rex Tillerson. But Mike Pompeo, according to my understanding, will probably be more aggressive toward Iran--for instance, he will likely suggest tearing up the JCPOA (or "Iran Nuclear Agreement," as it is commonly known)--and I, too, believe that the US should strongly confront the Iranian leadership, and never--never, under any circumstances--appease it.
     
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    There was no coup in Ukraine. Yanukovich, the pro Russian scum Turd traitor ran away to Russia because students and other Ukrainian patriots protested the fact that Yanukovich was selling Ukraine to Russia. After Yanukovich ran away like a coward scum Turd there were elections called and a new president was elected. Russia invaded Ukraine before the election of the new president.

    You are offering some mythical phone call as" proof" of something anti American. What was in that phone call? How do we know it is not a fake just like Russian TV . Or propaganda as is with all things out of the Kremlin? Can you proove any of your Allegations? I challenge you!
     
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    Sadly you are most likely correct. Sad for our country!
     
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    Lol... Tillersons spokesman at the State dept, Goldman, spouted off thos morning supporting Tillerson and criticizing Trump. He was just shitcanned too.
     
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    Of they will throw anyone criticizing the king into the shithole. That is to be expected.
     
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    He doesn't have any original ideas, so he can't do that.
    Bibi gave him this idea a week or two ago so he will run with it.
    But you have to hand it to Tillerson he made it almost 2 months past his expiration date.
     
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    That's all he wants is "Yes Men" and up to this point that is all they are.
     
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    or it could be just plain investigative forensics. trump supporters should just hand in their passports to putin.
     

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