Trump can't keep the help, can't find good help

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  1. Sandy Shanks

    Sandy Shanks Banned

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    Yeah, he was "less than candid." That is what the investigators said.

    Doesn't that sound phony to you?
     
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    Trump only hires those who are Unencumbered by Ability and Talent.
     
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    That is Deep State liberish for lying
     
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    2 standards. One for Democrats and one for the rest of America.
     
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    White House 'looking into' Alexander Acosta's prosecution in billionaire pedophile case

    https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/22/alexander-acosta-jeffrey-epstein-1179958

    The White House is "looking into" a decade-old Florida case in which Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, then a federal prosecutor, potentially violated the law by keeping underage female victims of billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein in the dark about his plea deal to avoid federal prosecution.

    "We’re looking into the matter, I’m not aware of any changes on that front," press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters when asked whether President Donald Trump's confidence in Acosta has changed.
     
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    No, Flynn is going to jail for violating the federal law that required him to register as a foreign agent. He lied to the FBI, falsely claiming that when he was hired by Trump he was no longer performing any contract work for the Russia government, even though he was.
     
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    You should at least research the bullshit you are spreading

    And then not spread it

    https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/01/politics/michael-flynn-court-filing/index.html

    See the first paragraph
     
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    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    He has no experience with the DOJ or as a litigator in private practice. IOW, he was not chosen based on qualifications but rather based on his familiarity to the Trump admin. So.......he can be relied on to be a yes man..........the most important quality Don looks for.
     
  9. Sandy Shanks

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    General Mattis quit after Trump surrendered Syria to Russia and Iran over two months ago. Trump has not named a permanent replacement. He has a pencil pushing acting SecDef who is the quietest SecDef in American history. If he has made any statements, I am unaware of them. If he has made any statements, they could not have been very important. That is probably exactly what Trump wants. The last thing he wants is an experienced person to assume the role of SecDef. That person might inform Congress and Americans the truth much like Mattis and Dan Coats did.

    Which explains why Trump is in no hurry to nominate a replacement for Mattis. In addition, qualified individuals are not interested. They saw what happened to Mattis and others.
     
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    You must have been listening to Rachel Maddow..
     
  11. Sandy Shanks

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    Trump held a rare news conference today. In it, he lied. Shocking.

    In one example of his fictional story telling, he repeated over and over again that the caliphate has been defeated. That part is true, but it is a distortion of the truth. It is true that ISIS has been driven out of all of the territory it once claimed, but notice Trump did not say ISIS was defeated. Nor did he mention that the Pentagon estimates there is a force of 20,000 to 30,000 ISIS guerilla fighters in Iraq and Syria.

    That is a formidable force that Trump failed to mention. All he said was the caliphate (territory) was defeated. Nor did he mention that a guerilla force is far more dangerous when it has no territory to defend because they are not forced to stand and fight. A guerilla force prefers to hit and disappear.

    Trump did not mention that, either. I switched to an older recording. There are times when Trump makes me want to puke. Today was such an occasion. We have a President who lies about a threat to our national security because he wants to make himself look good.
     
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    Nope, I came up with this all by myself.

    Your wisecrack aside, did I get anything wrong? You didn't say.
     
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    According to your logic, we should be encouraging people to join ISIS so that they have more people and will be less dangerous.. You should teach at the US War College, because I don't think they have been brought up to speed on this new theory of warfare.
     
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    Democrats never gave Trump the chance to shut it down. They first needed to submit to his possible veto a bill to fund. They refused to send such a bill to Trump.
     
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    kriman Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    He was the deputy secretary of defense for two years. Prior to that, he worked at Boeing. He is not exactly the newby you would like to portray him. I get the Air Force Association daily brief and they thought he was a good choice.
     
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    You watch Rachel Maddow? Man, how I hate those liberal networks.
     
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    Yeah, the almost total defeat of ISIS is puke making for some. The Islamic wish for a caliphate has been around as long as I have been alive and the various pushes for one only became available with oil money, and in the case of ISIS, the equipment provided by the US. I notice you have no puking moments for that during the Obama administration.
     
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    I didn't say he was a newby. I said he was a pencil pusher. Shanahan is an accountant type who lacks experience in foreign policy. https://www.theatlantic.com/interna...tary-shanahan-boeing-experience-trump/579232/
     
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    I have a prediction regarding Trump's summit with Kim Jong Un. You heard it here first.

    The Mueller report is due out soon. Trump is getting enormous heat over his imaginary national emergency and the White House is concerned about the number of Republican defectors. On the very same day that he is meeting with Kim, the 27th, his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, is slated to appear before the House Oversight Committee spilling his guts out on Trump's travesties in a public hearing and Americans will be listening closely.

    What does this mean as far as the summit is concerned? It means Trump is desperate to get Kim to agree to certain steps toward denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

    I predict Trump will give concessions to Kim to get certain agreements which Kim will forget about by March 1st. Up to now the U.S. has insisted on certifiable full denuclearization before any sanctions are lifted. I predict Trump will concede tit for tat steps toward denuclearization. N.K. agrees to certain steps be taken. U.S. removes certain sanctions. N.K. agrees to more steps. U.S. removes more sanctions, and so on. I predict Trump will make some concessions to get Kim to agree to the tit for tat arrangement.

    As Trump likes to say, "We'll see what happens."
     
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    Trump didn't say that. Do you have a reading problem?
     
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    AOC is 29.
    In the year 2062 (when she will be Trump's age), she will have had 43 years of experience in government.

    Trump and most of his supporters will be dead.
     
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    I have heard enough to recognize the similarity.
     
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    Wonder if she will still be a Bernie in experience?
     
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    At least I don't have a puking problem or think that the US will fix the centuries old problem in the ME.
     
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    We have a secretary of state to handle foreign policy.
     

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