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HEYYOU says

ISIS has largely been eliminated as a terrain-holding organization

That is a far cry from ISIS/ISIL is defeated....they will be back sooner than anyone thinks, the Ideology is quite alive and they live to fight another day - many more days.

Much better to lose a battle than the war - pull back, regroup and wait.

Might have some street cred if Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi and his top aides were taken out but this is not the case.

For any military confrontation between any two countries or entities, "defeated" in the 21st century means "contained, with possible isolated confrotations"
No one ever gets the German japanese Italian version anymore.
Kakistocracy says

That is a far cry from ISIS/ISIL is defeated...

Who held a standard?
We are not fighting midevil wars

Actually we are and we are not using the correct tactics but that is not sinking in, hasn't since Vietnam

Kakistocracy says

Leaving 200 "peacekeepers" there gives us a ready to excuse to dive back in to protect our "assets".

And monitor Iraq-Syrian traffic.

You may remember that ISIS was born in Iraq when Obama pulled out in a hurry, then spread rapidly to Syria.

MisterLearnToCode says

You may remember that ISIS was born in Iraq when Obama pulled out in a hurry, then spread rapidly to Syria.

And that has what to do with the claim that ISIS/ISIL is defeated which they are not.

Can we roll in Benghazi now ?

MisterLearnToCode says

And monitor Iraq-Syrian traffic.

And when a given % gets offed by whoever, even if the U.S. has to pay someone to do it - Bolton gets his war, cums and dies happy.

Kind of think satellites an drones could get the job done - just sayin. No need for boots on the ground when we can asses everything that is happening in North Korea and Google can provide photos clear enough to read license plates and see facial features clearly.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

GOP Ballot Fraud Operations

AF, you are outed as someone who HATES! SUCCESS! AGAIN! and AGAIN!

Islam isn’t gone yet.
Thus we have terrorists.
What’s your plan for getting rid of Islam?
I hear the Chinese are working hard at ridding their Uighur population of that terrible affliction.

Hey you makes more than 99% of the human race, yet thinks he’s oppressed

People don’t provide equal value, hence unequal outcomes.

FortWayneIndiana says

Hey you makes more than 99% of the human race, yet thinks he’s oppressed

Yes, you know how those top 1% people are.

Sorry, not buying it: the fucker is a fucking Commie through and through.

Michael Cohen Informing NY Prosecutors About Donor, Trump Organization

Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael D. Cohen provided information in January to Southern District of New York prosecutors about Trump Organization individuals and the Trump Inaugural Committee, sources told the New York Times in a report Friday.

Cohen, who in December was sentenced to three years in prison for a series of tax fraud and lying charges, reportedly was asked about Imaad Zuberi, a Los Angeles venture capitalist and political fundraiser. He also informed prosecutors about insurance claims filed by the Trump Organization.

Cohen's attorney Lanny Davis would not comment about the report but has stated that "Cohen is interested in cooperating with" prosecutors.

Southern District prosecutors on Feb. 4 subpoenaed documents related to donations and spending by Trump's inaugural committee's donors, finances, attendees and activities, with Zuberi considered a top person of interest. The Times noted that Zuberi, who according to his spokesman Steve Rabinowitz has not been questioned by prosecutors, was the only individual in the prosecutors' subpoena

Zuberi contributed $900,000 to the inauguration committee in late 2016 through his private equity firm. Sources told the Times that at about the same time he attempted to hire Cohen as a consultant and wrote him a check for a $100,000 that was never cashed. Rabinowitz has said that Zuberi denies having any dealings with Cohen beyond three conversations.

The Times noted that there was no indication Cohen had implicated Trump in the possible irregularities in his discussions with prosecutors.

The Trump inauguration has drawn scrutiny after taking in a record $107 million — nearly double former President Barack Obama's then-record $53 million in 2009.

The Times report comes after a report Thursday by the Wall Street Journal that federal prosecutors have investigated interactions between vendors and Trump's inaugural committee officials.

https://www.ibtimes.com/trump-inaugural-committee-investigation-michael-cohen-informing-ny-prosecutors-about-2767478

Bernie is all about Youth Programs with Chandeliers.

Here's what gets me he was gushing about the Youth getting Culture in Russia in 1985, but he was being a dishonest Cock Sucker like all Socialist Liberals.
He calls Communist indoctrination Culture. They were NOT watching Shakespeare plays and watching MTV videos and other Reagan era productions.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/watch-bernie-sanders-praised-soviet-unions-youth-programs-chandeliers-in-1980s/

Bernie is all about Youth Programs with Chandeliers.

Here's what gets me he was gushing about the Youth getting Culture in Russia in 1985, but he was being a dishonest Cock Sucker like all Socialist Liberals.
He calls Communist indoctrination Culture. They were NOT watching Shakespeare plays and watching MTV videos and other Reagan era productions.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/watch-bernie-sanders-praised-soviet-unions-youth-programs-chandeliers-in-1980s/

Elgatouno says

Back then state taxes were nothing by today's standards. You can't jack up federal taxes to previous higher levels without it being more than it was before.

I want to see Bernie vs Trump.

FortWayneIndiana says

I want to see Bernie vs Trump.

No you don't. America hasn't seen Brownshirts and voter oppression combination yet.
The Democrat party has well established themselves as Violent provocateurs with impunity, and all they have to do is hint Racism, Facsim or Nazis when we fight back and Judges step in issuing arrest warrants for those that would dare question the Antifa authority.

We would not want to see an election backed by Soros. That would be his wet dream and he would throw every dime he had at it.
Patriots would have to shoot our way out that scenario. Or end up in the limepits your choice!

Maybe a non-meme comment ? Reading required below.....no pictures

“I Think Bernie Has a Hard Time Understanding That”:

Sanders May Have Raised $6 Million, He’s Already Repeating Some Crucial 2016 Mistakes

Sanders marched with King, and has decried Trump as a racist. But many political operatives suggest he’s out of touch when it comes to America’s conversations about race.

he democratic socialist candidate for president is very good at raising money. In 2016, Bernie Sanders hauled in more than $228 million. This week, he proved that prowess was no fluke, collecting nearly $6 million in the 24 hours after announcing his 2020 bid, obliterating the previous high mark of $1.5 million for Kamala Harris. And the fact that the vast majority of those dollars came in small batches is a healthy thing for participatory democracy: four years ago, 58 percent of Sanders’s contributions were less than $200. This year’s cash came from 225,000 donors sending an on-brand average of $27.

None of Sanders’s opponents are scared by those numbers, however. Because what Sanders was less good at in 2016 was spending his large pile of money to win votes. Particularly the crucial Democratic primary votes of women and African-Americans. Especially in the key state of South Carolina. And three years after being crushed by 47 points there by Hillary Clinton, with an even more challenging field of primary rivals shaping up, Sanders is showing little sign that he’s going to get it right this time around. True, in January he spoke in South Carolina on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Sanders has also taken every opportunity to blast President Donald Trump as a racist. Yet Sanders remains remarkably awkward on the subject: when asked about the candidacies of Stacey Abrams in Georgia and Andrew Gillum in Florida, he declared that “there are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who felt uncomfortable for the first time in their lives about whether or not they wanted to vote for an African-American.” Symone Sanders, a strategist who worked for Bernie’s 2016 run, was puzzled by another recent comment that attempted to be high-minded yet came out sounding strangely demeaning. “He has this odd riff, about how candidates can’t just be a woman or a person of color,” she says. “Some people have said it’s tone-deaf—I think it’s a jab, and it’s not something that appeals to women or black voters.”

Joe Trippi is deeply familiar with the problem. “This is a very similar thing to what happened with us in the early stages of Howard Dean’s campaign in 2004. Vermont is not the most diverse state in the country,” says Trippi, who was the chief strategist for the surprisingly successful insurgent run by Vermont’s former governor. “In fact, I think it’s [one of] the least diverse. So part of it is just going into those communities of color and talking with people and learning. Dean did that, and over time he connected. The Vermont experience hampers Bernie, and I’m not sure that he’s figured out how to get beyond it. And it’s going to be even tougher with more diverse candidates out there competing for the votes he desperately needs to add to his coalition to have a real shot at the nomination.”

Sanders certainly recognizes the challenge. Yet he’s done little mechanically to address it, so far. There are no African-Americans in the ranks of his senior 2020 campaign advisers, and he has struggled to hire a top black organizer to run his South Carolina operation, where in 2016 he lost 84 to 16 percent among black voters. “I see signs that the senator understands the work that needs to be put into winning black votes,” says Symone Sanders, who ran Bernie’s 2016 South Carolina organization, and who was frustrated by the lack of support from the campaign’s leadership. “His biggest misstep was that he didn’t spend enough time in the state. It was like pulling teeth to get him to leave the Senate to go campaign. Now he’s done events all over the country that pay attention to the black electorate. But there are only four people who know how to run a winning statewide operation in South Carolina, and three of them are already working for someone else. Bernie’s people courted Jalisa Washington-Price real hard to run South Carolina, and she went with Kamala Harris.”

Mark Longabaugh was part of the Sanders brain trust in 2016. He’s certainly not writing off any part of the electorate, in South Carolina or any other state, but says the fractured 2020 field will amplify the power of Sanders’s message and money. “Last time, he had to get to 50 percent to win a contest. It was a binary choice, Sanders versus Clinton. This time, many of the primaries are going to have plurality victories. Barack Obama won a decisive victory in Iowa with 37 percent of the vote,” Longabaugh says. You need to galvanize a strong base. I feel very good about his chances.”

Bakari Sellers does not. And Sellers knows what it takes to run and win as a Democrat in South Carolina: he served in the state’s House of Representatives for eight years, until 2014. “Bernie’s supporters like to point to the fact he marched with King and got arrested in, like, 1963. What has Bernie Sanders done about civil rights since the 60s? Other than vote for the crime bill in 1994. In South Carolina, it’s going to come down to Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, if he runs.” Sellers, who is now a lawyer and a CNN commentator, praises Sanders for elevating knotty policy issues in the presidential discussion. He just doesn’t think Sanders’s record and agenda has much relevance in South Carolina. “I’m hard-pressed to see how he makes inroads with black voters, given the fundamental misconceptions he has about the intersection of race and economics. I appreciate the conversation we’re having about Medicare for all, but in South Carolina, we’re having a conversation about health-care equity. If I have Medicare for all but I don’t have a hospital in my county, what am I supposed to do? A lot of those issues are directly correlated with race, and I think Bernie has a hard time understanding that. He is on a trajectory to have the same showing that he had the last go round.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/bernie-sanders-already-repeating-some-crucial-2016-mistakes

It won’t happen.

He’s a white male, left hates white people.


Tenpoundbass says

FortWayneIndiana says

I want to see Bernie vs Trump.

No you don't. America hasn't seen Brownshirts and voter oppression combination yet.
The Democrat party has well established themselves as Violent provocateurs with impunity, and all they have to do is hint Racism, Facsim or Nazis when we fight back and Judges step in issuing arrest warrants for those that would dare question the Antifa authority.

We would not want to see an election backed by Soros. That would be his wet dream and he would throw every dime he had at it.
Patriots would have to shoot our way out that scenario. Or end up in the limepits your choice!

Here's Democrat voters curious about Socialism.

show me one tax return where anyone paid above 70%. I'm not buying it. And if the return shows it, it was because they laundered the other 50%.

https://www.hannity.com/media-room/busted-unearthed-video-shows-bernie-praising-fidel-castro-describes-himself-as-a-socialist/

Video Shows Bernie Praising FIDEL CASTRO, Describes Himself as a ‘SOCIALIST’

theoakman says

show me one tax return where anyone paid above 70%. I'm not buying it. And if the return shows it, it was because they laundered the other 50%.

Please go research how our progressive tax structure works, and that'll help you understand why someone's effective tax rate will never be their marginal tax rate. A little research and learning goes a long way.

This is so exciting.

Somebody pointed out - I think in this forum - that Bernie's language this time is mostly SJW messaging, rather than Economic like last time.

Bernie vs Trump. Looking forward to that

I supported Bernie in 2015-16, then Hillary stole the election and he bowed and scraped to her in the most despicable fashion after she gave him some wampum. I lost all respect for the man after that. Plus his wife is a hideous old hag who ran a university into the ground. No Bernie no way.