No, the drone strike in general. The controversy I was referring to was killing al-Walaki (the dad), who was a U.S. citizen.

Oh the most likely new EU ambassador for the US has already said he took down one Union in the Soviet Union and is ready to take down another one.

It's already on with the EU.

Oh I've no doubt he would be advised to do what you said. I'm telling you what trump and his puppet masters would do for maximum effect and attention.

Tanks in the Ciudad

Trumpites are convinced that everyone is secretly as racist as they are. It's just that liberals pretend they aren't.

I appreciated the effort.

I guess we'll just agree to disagree, let's just hope it doesn't come to that. I do feel that Mattis is the only person who would and could talk Trump out of doing something stupid like that.

Oops, the guy who gets stuff done and loves oil and pipelines just accidentally froze their approval process...

Trump loves pipelines. But he just accidentally froze a bunch of them

My wife and I have been having the same conversation. We clear seven figures if we sell our home, now. There's also a fairly strong savings/retirement portfolio. Between us, we hold five passports, including Canada and New Zealand. The plan was always to semi-retire to New Zealand in ten years.

We both love our work, and we love our home. We aren't ready to retire. Our work is such that doing similar in New Zealand would be worth about 1/3 of that here. Do we flee this presently toxic environment, or stay?

I have to admit I am not prepared for this. Not emotionally, nor intellectually. Last March, I confidently re-assured our New Zealand friends that Trump had NO CHANCE. I laugh at how terribly short-sighted my assumptions. I'm not weeping, yet. Perhaps I'm still in denial.

A war with Iran would make the one with Iraq look like a pillow fight. Expect 50,000+ US casualties.

By comparison a war with China would make Vietnam look like the pillow fight.


Both countries have the ability to strike the US homeland too. China much more so, but Iran is nothing to sneeze at.

The crazy thing is that both the Iranian and the Chinese people love Americans and just want to be able to get along and do business and make money. I wonder how many of them Trump will kill so he can look tough?

They don't actually believe either. Statements consistent with believing them just happen to have a shape appropriate to neutralising their intended target. "Personal emails" had a shape appropriate to damaging Clinton. They didn't care about Trump and various inner-circle members using personal email accounts. "Corruption" had a shape appropriate to damaging Clinton. They didn't care about Trump bribing officials and running a scam university. "Stood by a philanderer"; appropriate to damaging Clinton - but they didn't care about grabbing them by the pussy and trying to **** some woman while Melania was pregnant.

tl;dr they are not sincere but stupid. They are disingenuousness made flesh.

Fallout from the Trump Australia call:

Expect to see a lot of this going forward. People trying to circumvent Trump and work things out via back channels.

We had Jim Crow. So no.

Wait, wait, the name of the Australian ambassador to the United States is "Joe Hockey"? I call FAKE NEWS.

Former Treasurer of this country. Bonus: His full name is "Joseph Benedict Hockey".

On Fareed Zakaria's show a few months ago he named al-Awaki as perhaps the most dangerous man in the world right now.

And he's dead.

holy **** the isreal settlement thing was real. trump trashing obama for the un resolution he now supports won't matter to his supporters

WTF? What a flip flop. Like, which of the circle is pro-two-state? Kushner? Bannon? Price? Tillerson?

I remember when Reagan appointed a guy called Larry Speakes as his spokesman. Here in the UK we all laughed about how silly old Ronnie was presumably looking up LARRY TEACHES and LARRY FIRES MISSILES to head up the education and armed forces.

Oh for the good old days, when we just joked about how stupid the US president was. It's less funny these days.

Sharing our misery with your own?

List of currently ON NOTICE countries:

Mexico
Iran
Australia
Israel

Anyone else? I'm not including the EU because they were the ones making a fuss about the ambassador.

Must be field hockey though.

I'd just guess Bannon because he's probably insane and wants policy going back and forth because he love chaos.

It could have actually been Trump though. Maybe Ivanka?

oh for sure. I die a little more with each passing day as the UK bonds closer with Trump/MAGA/USA#1etc and drifts further away from the EU.