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It's funny because I've spent more time bashing my alma mater than anybody else on this forum. DS thinking that Penn State is my pain point is dumber than his secret Jewish handshake theory regarding Israeli foreign relations.

Pretty sure I'd hire a Penn State grad over a Penn dropout.

$1.4 million does seem like a lot of money to spend on blowing up a runway until you remember we spend that much per week so Melania can live in New York.

and:




twas a mashup

CNN reporting that a US carrier group is heading toward the Korean peninsula. Maybe a somethingburger, maybe not.

watch out for that squirrel

It is truly uncanny.

Time travel Trump didn't start tweeting sport results a few years back by any chance did he?

where the onion successfully navigates the nanospace between satire and reality

Can we demand an extension of the masters through congress's 2 weeks off?

I just hope that FPS 45 didn't get too much of a taste of power and positive press on Thursday. The prospects of that + a madman calling the shots = frightening.

...especially if there was FPS involved with Russia and the Syria attack too. He's likely to think he's on a rush and forget about the last 70 days of losing.

Is there any chance this NK situation ends without a nuke going off?

Doesn't Kim have them placed all over the country so you can't destroy them all at once, and if he is going out I am assuming it is in a blaze of glory?

The only other option I've read about is China ramping up sanctions thus crushing them economically, but what does he care about that?

Didn't know it was possible to crush NK economically more than it is already.

In **** the newspaper media,
Latimes ran a 5 part piece on trump is a crazy authoritarian this week

They gave trump a B grade for the week. Unreal. Just unreal.

NYT has a puff piece on manafort today*. Liberal media my ***.

*Seriously, ukraine wants to talk to him about a murder and it's not as a witness (among a ****load of other stuff) and you're running a puff piece on him? **** you.

Oh, certainly. China could cut off its lifeline to the Kim regime, but if that falls they'll have a colossal refugee problem that they're not at all ready to deal with.

idk if NK has nukes ready to go off (doubt it), but they have conventional weapons pointed at Seoul. If the Kim family is forced to go out in a blaze of glory, they can kill a ****load of people on both sides of the border.

I think if **** gets really desperate, Kim will work out some kind of deal where some shady nation like Saudi Arabia or Russia or Switzerland lets him escape and live comfortably in exile in exchange for not him not setting off a bloodbath.

He's gotta be too paranoid for that, no?

This guy has threatened the world with nukes, there almost feels like there is no going back for him.

Why do you doubt they have nukes? I thought the doubt was that they had long-range but most agree they have nukes?


Also, the skeptic in me kinda wonders if China doesn't mind this loon causing problems for Japan/S Korea and generally being a thorn in the side of the US.

I just saw the "only time will tell on trade" tweet in reference to the Jinping meeting.

Basically means he didn't get ****.

I actually thought they were gonna do some BS "Chinese company X will invest Y $ in (insert rust belt state)" but guess not. That surprised me they didn't even do that for PR purposes.

Huh - but you lefties supported Obama in his military strikes against Syria but here, where there is a clear reason for another strike (being the chemical attack that occurred on the Syrian people that either the the Syrian government was behind or supported), you don't support it??

Once more with Russia apparently having military equipment at the air base in Syria and the US still giving it the go ahead, I thought you blokes would be happy that this shows that the Trump administration and the Putin reign aren't all that close after all...

At the risk of responding to someone who is trolling, there are some major differences, among them:

1. Obama was looking to get Congressional approval, Trump did not.

2. I trust Obama not to stumble into a quagmire in the Middle East; I feel the opposite way about Trump.

3. I have faith in Obama's ability to understand the complexity and nuances of the conflict in Syria, but not Trump.

As for the Russia stuff, I don't think we should draw any conclusions just yet. This thing could very easily lead to all of the sanctions on Russia being lifted, which would not support your narrative.

Putin dgaf about syria like Trump dgaf about mexico/germany/etc.

O said assad would go and putin saw an opening to make him appear more powerful than US Pres and was right. Putin's just fine with getting Trump to do something stupid to weaken US even including sacrificing Assad. This is how they've worked for a long time now, infilitrate and destroy from within or just get stupid people to do whatever they want while they sit back and laugh at them. Trump's impulsiveness is gonna lead to a lot of this, they don't have to do much to get him triggered to do something really dumb especially if they can fool him (ie he thinks it's someone else's fault). NK has a nonzero risk of getting into a stupid war with china, where everyone's covering for our giant moron instead of handing him over and apologizing. Guess who the big winner is there.

Can someone tell the president of the united states that the capital of south korea is like 10 miles from the actual border of north korea and destruction of such would be VERY BAD for his public image.

This is also why it's completely reckless for media to applaud trump for bombs, he cares most about public image. Now he knows, more bombs get thrown down the higher his approval. WAAF.

Syria's so complicated all the people who are usually wrong about everything are all over the place on that issue. I do agree with the he should've told congress before russia argument tho. Still not sure about strikes, do we have a plan? (no we don't, just a week ago they were like "lol let him stay" so what the hell was this other than a symbolic gesture? Idk whatever, seems like majority want it, and the countries/people that don't support it aren't our friends so uh... WAAF?).

Can't be optimistic on the plan thing with mr. impulsive as president--all the other middle eastern wars had a lot less variables and we screwed all of those up or never had one other than drop a ton of bombs and everything magically works after that.

2nd and 3rd reason are not valid because that's just your opinion.