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

Mnuchin claiming that Trump has allowed him power to shut down the Turkish economy "at a moment's notice" on ABC This Week.

Good morning!

Mnuchin claiming that Trump has allowed him power to shut down the Turkish economy "at a moment's notice" on ABC This Week.

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https://ahvalnews.com/mcdonalds/mcdonalds-turkey-going-sale

oh shit it's begun

Return of ISIS necessary for further crackdown on immigration &on all civil liberties.Trump is dumb/mentally ill but Miller & Bannon(whom Pompeo & Barr just met w/in Rome)really do have plan on how to break down this nation & rebuild it as totally other entity.Putin on same page.

— Jorie graham (@jorie_graham) October 13, 2019

Yup, that makes sense

Heh, knives out
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/465582-cruz-of-course-its-not-appropriate-to-ask-china-to-investigate

little plastic butterknives

That’s all he’s got

Yup, that makes sense

Yes

http://drewfriedman.blogspot.com/2019/10/drawing-president-trump.html

this seems fine https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/14/fake-video-of-trump-shooting-media-and-opponents-shown-at-presidents-resort

love my big moist murdering president

Oh, that was a fake video? Thanks for clearing that up, Guardian headline writer.

seems like appropriate caution tbh

The setting for the massacre is the "Church of Fake News," capturing Mr. Trump's familiar refrain about news stories and organizations he says he considers to be producing fake news....

In the video, Mr. Trump's critics and media members are portrayed as parishioners fleeing his gruesome rampage. The fake Trump strikes the late Sen. John McCain in the neck, hits and stabs TV personality Rosie O'Donnell in the face, lights Sen. Bernie Sanders' head on fire and shoots or otherwise assaults people whose faces are replaced with news organizations' logos.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-graphic-video-depicting-trump-like-figure-assaulting-foes-media-shown-trump-doral-miami-resort-new-york-times/

why would anyone go see Joker when they can just read news about Trump to get the same effect

^ Exactly why I will never see Joker

today was the day Decker became reality

Decker is pretty much the only modern political satire that actually works

Vote for good guy @seanspicer tonight on Dancing With The Stars. He has always been there for us!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 14, 2019

Matt Gaetz emerges from closed-door interview with Fiona Hill saying he was kicked out by House Democrats bc he’s not a member of the three committees conducting the interview. He said he consulted with the House parliamentarian, who ruled that he could not be there.

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) October 14, 2019

House parliamentarian otm

xxp ELECTION INTERFERENCE!

He was just trying to learn about possible caravans, give him a break

President Trump’s acquiescence to Turkey’s move to send troops deep inside Syrian territory has in only one week’s time turned into a bloody carnage, forced the abandonment of a successful five-year-long American project to keep the peace on a volatile border, and given an unanticipated victory to four American adversaries: Russia, Iran, the Syrian government and the Islamic State.

Rarely has a presidential decision resulted so immediately in what his own party leaders have described as disastrous consequences for American allies and interests. How this decision happened — springing from an “off-script moment” with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, in the words of a senior American diplomat — likely will be debated for years by historians, Middle East experts and conspiracy theorists.

But this much already is clear: Mr. Trump ignored months of warnings from his advisers about what calamities likely would ensue if he followed his instincts to pull back from Syria and abandon America’s longtime allies, the Kurds. He had no Plan B, other than to leave. The only surprise is how swiftly it all collapsed around the president and his depleted, inexperienced foreign policy team.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/world/middleeast/trump-turkey-syria.html

"likely will be debated for years by historians, Middle East experts and conspiracy theorists." = the classic 'was he trying to play chess, or is he just really, really fucking stupid' debate

"He had no Plan B, other than to leave." = fake opinion; plan B is always to sue them

springing from an “off-script moment” with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, in the words of a senior American diplomat

that's an extremely generous characterisation of what happened

btw, countdown to the moment trump declares that the kurds are traitors, because now they're fighting with Assad against Turkey. this will happen within the week, i would guess, possibly even this afternoon

Check Twitter.

"....Democrat’s game was foiled when we caught Schiff fraudulently making up my Ukraine conversation, when I released the exact conversation Transcript, and when Ukrainian President and the Foreign Minister said there was NO PRESSURE, very normal talk! A total Impeachment Scam!"

got that far, gave up

very normal talk

Expert Presidential Advisors: Here are the pertinent facts about the situation on Syrian border. Here is the outcome we are trying to avoid and the better outcome we realistically think we can achieve. This is the policy designed to address those facts and achieve that outcome. Do you have any questions?

Trump: Have you seen my sharpie?

you see, trump released the "exact conversation Transcript", and it was schiff who tried to fool everyone with his fake recount of it. everyone was very fooled by schiff! bad man! bad!

(btw i apologize for being a bit annoyed at those who were paying so much attention to the transcript vs summary thing, the day they released it. it didn't seem that important to me because i thought it would be impossibly stupid for anyone to confuse the two

and yet

Expert Presidential Advisors: Here are the pertinent facts about the situation on Syrian border. Here is the outcome we are trying to avoid and the better outcome we realistically think we can achieve. This is the policy designed to address those facts and achieve that outcome. Do you have any questions?

fake hypothetical synopsis: his advisors are like "yes sir!""yes sir!" "oh wow, great! yes sir mr president! don't get mad and yell or tweet or fire me! yes sir! yes sir!"

Hmmm. So, you think they all call him "Sir", eh. Where have I seen that before?

in his dreams, where the things that are not real become real:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/16/politics/sir-trump-telltale-word-false/index.html

another small wrinkle:

And over the weekend, State and Energy Department officials were quietly reviewing plans for evacuating roughly 50 tactical nuclear weapons that the United States had long stored, under American control, at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, about 250 miles from the Syrian border, according to two American officials.

Those weapons, one senior official said, were now essentially Erdogan’s hostages. To fly them out of Incirlik would be to mark the de facto end of the Turkish-American alliance. To keep them there, though, is to perpetuate a nuclear vulnerability that should have been eliminated years ago.

“I think this is a first — a country with U.S. nuclear weapons stationed in it literally firing artillery at US forces,” Jeffrey Lewis of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies wrote last week.

*gulp*

Don't worry, isn't Rick Perry in charge of the nuclear arsenal?

we're good

President Trump’s acquiescence to Turkey’s move to send troops deep inside Syrian territory has in only one week’s time turned into a bloody carnage, forced the abandonment of a successful five-year-long American project to keep the peace on a volatile border

Historians may question whether funding, arming and training the Kurds, funding, arming and training the Arab militias murdering the Kurds and selling Turkey the weapons they’re using to bomb the Kurds, was successfully keeping the peace, idk. Trump may have triggered the crisis by withdrawing US troops from East of the Euphrates but let’s not pretend that anyone responsible for creating a situation in which the only thing stopping America’s allies from killing wach other was the physical presence of American troops deserves a pat on the back.

Rick Perry in charge of the nuclear arsenal?

Rick Perry has resigned but strictly speaking, no, the DOE handles nuclear waste and nuclear material, but deployed weapons fall under the DOD.

ah

DOE also does all of the nuclear weapons manufacture, maintenance, and storage, and transport of weapons until and after they're in military custody. They support the storage of some 2500 warheads / cores at Kirtland Underground Munitions Maintenance and Storage Complex, abutting the airport at Albuquerque, NM.

Anyone who wants to assist Syria in protecting the Kurds is good with me, whether it is Russia, China, or Napoleon Bonaparte. I hope they all do great, we are 7,000 miles away!

Some people want the United States to protect the 7,000 mile away Border of Syria, presided over by Bashar al-Assad, our enemy. At the same time, Syria and whoever they chose to help, wants naturally to protect the Kurds........I would much rather focus on our Southern Border which abuts and is part of the United States of America. And by the way, numbers are way down and the WALL is being built!

good to know that numbers are way down

Definitely one that he didn't write, since it uses "abuts" correctly.

I am growing the Republican Party tremendously - just look at the numbers, way up!

we've come a long way baby