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Trump is really fixing the Crapper.

Voting for Democrats & Republicans is the only thing that will save America.

Getting rid of illegal aliens would be cheap! Just pass a law declaring every illegal an enemy combatant who is free of the laws of the land, subject to slaying by any upright citizen. Then give notice thirty days before the law goes into effect. They'd deport themselves!

Quigley says

For a rent-seeking parasite like you, that has to be frightening.

Terrifying!

I'm saying more than Obama done!

I've done more for you than Obama has ever done.

I've at least told you the truth about Obama care and all of the other horrible policies he's inflicted on this nation.

Me and 51% of the voting population and a floundering just a few years ago once flourishing Mainstream media on both sides of the political spectrum are now defunct and feckless propaganda king makers.

I hope my constant bitching over the last 7 to 8 years, my lone far off distant voice of reason is a sea of Okey Dokes. Made it through all of the noise and the lies and registered with the lot that pulling for Trump.
Every time I heard one of the talking head shows pick up on unique dialog I started from a MSM news story where they were spinning it as another great accomplishment, and I stepped up and ran it through my Bullshit parser. I would really like to think I had more to do with what is gong on with Trump right now, than his slick hair doo.

Ironman says

that has ZERO accomplishments after 25 years in Congress

I would call bucking the establishment and voting against the Iraq War an accomplishment.
I would call voting against NAFTA, CAFTA, and PNTR an accomplishment
I would call voting against the Patriot Act an accomplishment

Just because you elect a bunch of idiots that won't pass his good bills doesn't hide the fact that he has been proven right-again and again.

It seems that YOU have no idea who is behind the aholes you hold dear.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/29/fox-is-one-of-the-biggest-donors-to-the-clintons/

The parent company of Fox News has helped to finance the career of Hillary Clinton. In fact, the company has helped a lot.

21st Century Fox/News Corp. ranks ninth on the list of the top “corporate and union donors to the Clintons over two decades,” according to a little-noticed list compiled by The Wall Street Journal in 2014. The list counts donations from “companies, foundations, and employees.”

21st Century Fox also ranks as the 13th biggest contributor to Hillary Clinton during her political career, according to a database maintained by the Center for Responsive Politics. The database credits the Rupert Murdoch-owned company as having pitched in $340,936 to her campaigns. That puts Fox just below Lehman Brothers, but eleven spots below second-place Goldman Sachs, on the pro-Clinton list.

“The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organizations’ PACs, their individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals’ immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates,” the database notes.

Murdoch’s charitable foundation and his son James are also contributors to the Clinton Foundation, which is now reportedly being examined by the FBI, which is investigating Hillary Clinton for possible Espionage Act violations regarding her private email use and also possible instances of public corruption regarding the Foundation.

Ironman says

To refresh your memory, YOUR blue team had the majority in congress the last two years of Bush's term and YOUR team had control of the White House since Jan. 2009 along with congress for those next two years..

Want to to tell us what "good bills" of Bernie's got passed during those times, when your team was on top?

I'm not on a "team". There are a lot of Dems that are almost as bad as Republicans.

He wont have to war.
I think you mean the American liberals will have to get the Euroweenie socialist to pick a war with Trump.
Now that's a 1,000 times more likely than Donald Trump arbitrarily picking a fight with any country you could name right now.
I bet any opposition that you could try to name right now(A recongnized state power that is) they will say that they get along fine with Trump.
Just as China's leaders have all said, Putin everyone early on when the Ameircan talking heads were spreading that lie, they all said. Actually we're more on a first name basis with Donald Trump, than anyone in Washington is right now.

Tenpoundbass says

ideology or endocrine

This is the second time in a couple days that I've heard this word endocrine from you in this context. What do you think it means ?

marcus says

Tenpoundbass says

ideology or endocrine

This is the second time in a couple days that I've heard this word endocrine from you in this context. What do you think it means ?

Look I don't know what in the HELL It is that you guys are doing, but you better cut it OUT!

It would be awesome if Bush the 3rd hits trump right in the jaw and while he's on the ground kicks him a couple of times followed up with "who's low energy now?"

Ironman says

So, in translation, you can't name a single bill Bernie got passed, but, we should vote for him anyway, because next time it will be different, and he'll accomplish something..

Got it!!

Nope--you cannot translate. I've explained the value of having a President with good judgment multiple times.

My point was NOT that Russia has a better military than us. It doesn't. But 1,800 functional nukes means it is mutually assured destruction to seriously tangle with them.
My point is WHY? The world is an increasingly dangerous place, with disruptive technology changing the game every few years. America needs ALLIES with strength and will to police these factors and keep things safe for business. Russia would make a good one, not only for its military but for its resources, it's people, and it's placing next to China. If we were allies with Russia, and China got uppity, it would know it had a next door neighbor that would be unhappy about the deal.
As it is, the Obama/Clinton strategy has been pushing Russia and China closer while alienating Russia from the US.
I think that's stupid.

One way or the other we'll have to contain the rising power of China, and Russia is vital in that regard. So we're just making our lives tougher when the inevitable rapprochement occurs, losing out on business deals in the process.

However, if Putin wanted to, he would be in Kiev in 48 hours. He's deliberately keeping it low key. Main reason: Both the EU and NATO can only fully admit countries that don't have current violent internal conflict. Minsk calls for a Federated Ukraine; the Ukrops don't want to abide by that and federalize because the truth is Ukraine is divided between a right-wing West, a pro-Russia East, and a schizophrenic, undecided Center. That's why Ukraine keeps flopping between pro-West and pro-East governments; even it's Oligarchs are divided.

A few thousand 'volunteers' and "voentorg" (Joke term, like "Army-Navy Surplus") were enough to stop the unmotivated, poorly supplied Ukrainian Army from crushing the revolt in Donbass. Putin keeps the DPR/LPR militia forces on a tight leash and only lets them loose when there's a big UA campaign to crush Donbass. Remember a handful of volunteers surrounded and eliminated a Mechanized Infantry Brigade utterly.

Reason Yankovitch dropped the EU Agreement was because people pointed out that 50% of Ukrainian exports go to Russia alone under a Trade Agreement, and all of Ukraine's industry is an annex of the Russian industrial base (due to USSR history). There was a bit of a protest from the Ukrainian SJW Blue-haired Creative Class who desperately wants to be Eurogay but it only became a thing because the Ultranationalist Demi-Nazi Galicians, on the CIA payroll for decades, came out with guns and molotovs to the Maiden. Now the dumbass pro-Westerners have fucked up not only low-value added products, but they've dealt themselves out of high-valued added aerospace manufacturing; the Russians have all but replaced Ukraine as a source of supply for their planes and spacecraft. Porky is a Russian speaker, Ukrainian is only spoken daily and normally in the West of the country. All business in Ukraine, and most TV, is conducted in Russian; what TV is in Ukrainian is mostly UHF-level quality and locally produced.

If there is a Federalized Ukraine, Donetsk region, along with Kharkov, Odessa, etc. will always veto any plans to join NATO in the Rada.

If he invaded Ukraine, he'd give all the Russophobes the proof of their long term claim: "Russia is aggressive" - when it's a defensive power maintaining a minimum shield of neutral or friendly neighbors as is routine, normal behavior of a nation state - we certainly wouldn't let Mexico host Chinese Air Bases or Cuba host Russian nukes. That's why Putin always hangs back and lets the other guy make the first move, for cover. See Georgia (pushed passed the OECD-approved Peacekeepers invaded South Ossetia, this is beyond a doubt, only extreme fanatics contest this) and Chechnya (when Chechen Jihadis invaded Dagestan) and Crimea (Ukrainian troops began military operations in Donetsk). Was Putin waiting to move right in, yep.

For a good 30 minutes by a Princeton Scholar who actually knows and speaks Russian and explains the whole picture, check out Stephen Cohen on the Jon Bachelor Program every Tuesday:
https://audioboom.com/boos/4109425-cold-war-frozen-war-hot-war-1-26-16-stephen-f-cohen-eastwestaccord-com

anonymous says

Thankfully the A-10 has survived and we can only hope some fuckwit general doesn't find a way to screw that up.

The USAF is desperate to junk the finest CAS aircraft ever built. Probably because it is robust, easy to maintain, great to fly, and absolutely deadly.

The USAF is back to their old bullshit of missilier non-dogfighting planes and "deep strike" baloney. The F-15 and F-16 were actually forced on the USAF by civilian eggheads. Whenever the USAF isn't restrained, they keep going back to the long distance radar-guided AAM based plane and deep bombing raids baloney.

High Energy dogfighters and CAS win wars. We bombed the shit out of Germany in WW2, Vietnam in the 70s, didn't do shit to break the will or destroy the ability to fight.