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04-13-2017 , 03:42 PM

#26001

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

Any chance Trump has basically told his admin, "Do whatever you want. I'm going golfing. Just let me know when good things happen so I can take credit for it, okay?"

04-13-2017 , 03:46 PM

#26002

TheHip41

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that is his exact platform.

he knows nothing

04-13-2017 , 03:50 PM

#26003

ScreaminAsian

For President

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Trump: I want to launch a nuke. That little fat kid in Korea thinks he's better than me.
Joint Chiefs of Staff: ummm, well, we have got this conventional bomb that's a lot LIKE a nuclear bomb
Trump: Did Obama drop one?
JCS: No. It's pretty pointless to ever use it, honestly
Trump: whatever. I'm going golfing, so just twitter DM me the video, I'll need it to achieve an erection when I'm with a 12-year-old prostitute later

04-13-2017 , 03:51 PM

#26004

Hold'em 07

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What does 11 tons equal in terms I can understand?

Like how many 400lb hackers, each sitting on their own bed would that be?

04-13-2017 , 03:52 PM

#26005

sportsjefe

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

Any chance Trump has basically told his admin, "Do whatever you want. I'm going golfing. Just let me know when good things happen so I can take credit for it, okay?"

Chance?

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/statu...01997681451009

04-13-2017 , 03:52 PM

#26006

Paul D

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04-13-2017 , 03:56 PM

#26007

ye90

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Yeah it was reported actually that Trump has authorized Mattis and some generals to do whatever they want.

04-13-2017 , 03:59 PM

#26008

Our House

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Quiet translation: The generals are smarter than me.

04-13-2017 , 04:03 PM

#26009

microbet

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We're in Mad Dog's hands. Hmm, didn't Mad Dog want to invade Iran?

04-13-2017 , 04:10 PM

#26010

Namath12

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Quote:

Originally Posted by sirin

Fake news, everyone knows this is impossible, Trump is a germophobe.

Yeah I thought about that and wondered what Trump's reaction was to the news. Pretty low % probability he's ever been arsed to enter the Mar a Lago kitchen though.

04-13-2017 , 04:12 PM

#26011

wheatrich

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

We're in Mad Dog's hands. Hmm, didn't Mad Dog want to invade Iran?

I believe that was flynn (but it's a position held by israel/saudis too b/c they want to gain power in the middle east--so it's still on the table)
still a guy nicknamed mad dog in charge of military and he's the most decent person in the entire administration. WAAF.

04-13-2017 , 04:13 PM

#26012

cuserounder

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So basically, there was a non-violent partial military coup? Cause the generals are now running a big chunk of our foreign policy with no advance oversight.

04-13-2017 , 04:18 PM

#26013

Namath12

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Is the Guardian a tabloid in the UK? Or is that the Daily Mail? I get those confused.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...m-links-russia

Anyhoo the Guardian is reporting they have a source who tells them that "they now have specific concrete and corroborative evidence of collusion.”

04-13-2017 , 04:21 PM

#26014

+rep_lol

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Not a UKer but The guardian is v well respected afaik

04-13-2017 , 04:22 PM

#26015

microbet

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Quote:

Originally Posted by wheatrich

This is just a quick google hit. I'm out the door and don't have time to read it now. It may well have been Flynn I was thinking of though.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...defense-214500

04-13-2017 , 04:24 PM

#26016

BroadwaySushy

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Namath12

A source. LOL.

04-13-2017 , 04:26 PM

#26017

Namath12

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Also CIA director Mike Pompeo officially becomes the last human to realize that Weakyleaks and Russia were working together during the campaign

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecur...igence-service

04-13-2017 , 04:28 PM

#26018

Namath12

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fyi this is the same Mike Pompeo who was sharing Weakyleaks docs on his congressional twitter account not even a year ago

04-13-2017 , 04:33 PM

#26019

otatop

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ye90

Yeah it was reported actually that Trump has authorized Mattis and some generals to do whatever they want.

It's good to know Trump can delegate these minor unimportant things like foreign policy to others, keeps him free to do his important work like watching Fox News and Spicer's briefings.

04-13-2017 , 04:39 PM

#26020

SuperUberBob

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ye90

Yeah it was reported actually that Trump has authorized Mattis and some generals to do whatever they want.

Where did you read this?

04-13-2017 , 04:40 PM

#26021

Our House

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BroadwaySushy

A source. LOL.

If you were a source of this subject matter (especially outside the US), would you want Putin to have your name? Be honest with your answer.

04-13-2017 , 04:43 PM

#26022

einbert

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Detained, Tortured, Killed: How Chechnya Cracked Down on Gays
https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/...-on-gays-57648

Quote:

The crackdown seemed like something out of the Stalinist-era repressions: over 100 gay men brutally detained — and at least three killed — in Chechnya, perhaps Russia’s most conservative and authoritarian region.

Gay Chechens were frantically closing their social media and messenger accounts out of fear that these online communities had been infiltrated by the local security services, the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, which broke the story, reported.

Even if a person captured in the crackdown was released due to an absence of evidence, he often faced another risk: a so-called honor killing at the hands of relatives seeking to wash the shame of being gay from their family.

The news has since attracted attention around the world. But rights activists struggling to help the victims face a nearly insurmountable cultural taboo — and fear much of the story remains untold.

“We have only found the tip of the iceberg,” says Yekaterina Sokirianskaya, the International Crisis Group’s North Caucasus project director.