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

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

Of course he means that, but it's the daffiness of the comment that gets me.

Tbf his followers have previous form for running over pedestrians

I'm just imagining a Springsteen tune with those lyrics

these two lanes can take us annnnnywhere

i just cant figure out which

391 days until election day!

“25% percent want the the President impeached” is, no surprise, utter horseshit. He’s at 55% in favor of impeachment in the latest Fox poll. I’m so sick of this lying liar I just can’t even.

I assume he means 25% of Republicans. (Which is a pretty high number.) Democrats don't count.

Apparently neither does he

He doesn’t want to be my president, I don’t want him to be my president, and yet, here we are

-howlin wolf

Frampton comes alive

What is the point of a subpoena if, when handed it, you can just say “No” and we go, “Ok, sorry to bother you”. Raid the f_ckers and get what we are asking for!

— Peter Frampton (@peterframpton) October 8, 2019

oooo baby i love your post

he feels like we do

Oh won't you show us the tax returns?

Once you've lost the '70s AOR stalwarts, it's all downhill.

What do Don 'n' Ghost of Glenn think?

Joe Walsh too.

xp!

he's mad at Fox

From the day I announced I was running for President, I have NEVER had a good @FoxNews Poll. Whoever their Pollster is, they suck. But @FoxNews is also much different than it used to be in the good old days. With people like Andrew Napolitano, who wanted to be a Supreme....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 10, 2019

...Court Justice & I turned him down (he’s been terrible ever since), Shep Smith, @donnabrazile (who gave Crooked Hillary the debate questions & got fired from @CNN), & others, @FoxNews doesn’t deliver for US anymore. It is so different than it used to be. Oh well, I’m President!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 10, 2019

How do his fans read this stuff and not think just a little bit that he might be a whiny bitch?

Game fail to recognize game, I guess.

At any rate, this is a whiny bitch tangent I can get behind 100%.

that is pretty much the most baffling thing to me about the DJT cult of personality

I enjoy the ambiguity of "doesn't deliver for *US* anymore"