US Politics, October 2019 — I guess statement you could say with thread. I made a thread. The thread was PERFECT.

#evoljbetrayedbytommyvietor

He’s enabling imperial aggression

another presidential first

new sexual assault allegations from FORTY-THREE women - all of whom are lying for personal gain, obviously

In time, Johnson said, the calls stopped. She never went back to Mar-a-Lago. She eventually told the relative who was with her at the New Year’s Eve party what had happened, but she never told her dying husband. Years later, Johnson was shocked to hear Trump describing on the Access Hollywood tape exactly what he had done to her. “When he says that thing, ‘Grab them in the pussy,’ that hits me hard because when he grabbed me and pulled me into the tapestry, that’s where he grabbed me—he grabbed me there in my front and pulled me in,” she told us.

Asked about his move to abandon the Kurds, Trump says Turkey has "been wanting to do this for many years" & "they have been fighting each other for hundreds of years" as if that justifies it.

"You have the PKK which is the natural enemy of Turkey ... possibly always will be" pic.twitter.com/MoDbvYExmM

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 9, 2019

“natural enemy”

Asked about the possibility of ISIS escapees, Trump says "Well, they're going to be escaping to Europe."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 9, 2019

jfc

this is pretty sickening

really sickening. he’s making life and death decisions that affect millions of people.

in the Middle East too

That is who i am talking about

Yeah, thanks for that, Leader of the Free World.

profiles in courage

fucking hell!

I'm sure Putin's glad to hear it anyway.

Trump on the Kurds: "They didn't help us in the Second World War, they didn't help us with Normandy." He says they're only interested in fighting for "their land." He adds, "With all of that being said, we like the Kurds."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 9, 2019

you're right, they didn't help us with Normandy

fucking hell

monster

heartfelt thanks to the GOP and all Republican voters for making this all possible

the GOP is going to turn around and claim that the kurdish forces are all radical leftists connected to the pkk. and that's how they'll justify it, taking turkey's line. watch.

They let women fight too. That is not God's way.

i mean, who knows but that's what i predict. especially bc trump brought up the pkk in this press conference.

the GOP is going to turn around and claim that the kurdish forces are all radical leftists connected to the pkk. and that's how they'll justify it, taking turkey's line. watch.

― treeship., Wednesday, October 9, 2019 1:49 PM (three minutes ago)

i mean the SDF/YPG is the PKK so they would technically be correct

though that doesn't explain allying with them for years and then abandoning them (and all the civilians who live in their territory) to bombardment and invasion from turkey/syrian arab islamist forces

Right. I didn’t mean they’d be factually wrong. Although i don’t think they call themselves the pkk anymore but i could be wrong.

Also isn’t it a coalition of different kurdish groups?

The United States does not classify the YPG as a terrorist entity — a legal distinction that allowed the Obama administration to justify its cooperation with the group. Both groups [YPG and PKK] operate under the same command structure, and fighters move freely between them. Indeed, the YPG is militarily effective in part because of its members' experience in Turkey. Links on the ground are clear: After the YPG defeated the Islamic State in the Syrian city of Raqqa, fighters unfurled banners showing Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned founder of the PKK.

Turkish officials were unimpressed by U.S. efforts to make the YPG more palatable by adding Syrian Arab fighters and creating a new umbrella organization called the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). They note that Gen. Raymond Thomas, former head of U.S. Special Operations Command, has said publicly that he asked the YPG to "change your brand" and described the inclusion of "democratic" in the group's name as a "stroke of brilliance."

Trump defends diplomat's wife who killed teenage Briton in crash: 'We've all done it' https://t.co/uNgu3B9M1L

— The Independent (@Independent) October 9, 2019

big trump rally here in downtown minneapolis tomorrow, gonna be a shit show. can't believe he'd stoke out-state racial resentment by setting up shop in a multicultural liberal enclave, ilhan omar's district, even... no way

Simply strategically speaking, this Turkey thing as an example of Trump’s sheer spinelessness is playable for anyone running against him, like Turkey suggests we leave so they can be free to annihilate the allies of ours who helped us fight ISIS, and Trump asks “how fast?” And if he rolls over for Turkey so publicly and swiftly, who won’t he roll over for? And who has he rolled over for that we don’t know about?

With the GOP freaking out, it has a little more clout.

Who wrote the piece of crap that Trump (at least imagines he) read?

Here's the full quote. The President evidently read something today about the Kurds, and that's where the WWII and D-Day stuff came from. pic.twitter.com/mMyfhF8cyv

— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) October 9, 2019

But of course

Trump appears to have gotten his "Kurds didn't help us at Normandy" line from a Kurt Schlichter column. https://t.co/jAbsP9VCQt pic.twitter.com/6HknvoZ0gl

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) October 9, 2019

Obergruppenfuhrer Kurt Schlichter?

I've never read anything by Kurt Schlichter before and now that I have, I'm suffering flashbacks to Ed Anger's My America.

Pretty much that!

That whole article is batshit crazy. "Yes the Turks might commit genocide, they've done it before, but that's no reason for anyone to stop them."

Not a single Kurd fought at the Battle of Trenton.

"they didn't help us with Normandy"

Occasionally he can still surprise you with something this evil/dumb

^^Was just thinking that the logistics of getting them to Normandy in 1944 would be quite insane.

I mean, why not say North Africa?

The Kurds had their own problems in WW2.

big trump rally here in downtown minneapolis tomorrow, gonna be a shit show. can't believe he'd stoke out-state racial resentment by setting up shop in a multicultural liberal enclave, ilhan omar's district, even... no way

looks like some cool fun guys are showing up

http://www.citypages.com/news/armed-conspiracy-group-will-defend-republicans-at-minneapolis-trump-rally/562562061

Since Herr Trump brought up WW II: Turkey, while officially remaining neutral during the war, was in fact much closer to Germany than to the Allies, and only sided with the Allies at the very last moment.

We all drive on the wrong side of the road, kill pedestrians, then flee the scene and country after and hide behind diplomatic immunity

Only 25 percent want the President Impeached, which is pretty low considering the volume of Fake News coverage, but pretty high considering the fact that I did NOTHING wrong. It is all just a continuation of the greatest Scam and Witch Hunt in the history of our Country!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 9, 2019

i can't imagine any poll at all, even internal, that would show a number that low

does he mean...25% of republicans???

if so, good lord what a dumbass

That whole article is batshit crazy. "Yes the Turks might commit genocide, they've done it before, but that's no reason for anyone to stop them."

look, they've had their eyes on this genocide for a very long time

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And if ya don't know
Now ya know

well i think he means accidentally driving in the wrong lane but yes, that statement would release a decade's worth of conspiracy mongering from the right if uttered by a democrat