Nov 21, 2016 Watch your tone with me. I am a man and you are a p---- who gets off baiting poor Paul Thompson on a message board. s--- his d-ck already with your DSLs perry is prhyme, pls guys. and HOLY s--- defending putin yeah, islam is the assbackwards ideology....
Nov 21, 2016 Not all appointments have been made yet. Plus I don't think there's anything wrong with nationalism. Again it will depend on actual reforms and not hearsay. People are so quick to label and dismiss based on thin grounds. Also lol at "policy details" of the leak you mention. They were notes taken into a meeting. You don't know the nature of the meeting (the guy taking the notes hasn't even been appointed yet), nor do you know whether the documents reflect actual policy plans. Again just hearsay.
Nov 21, 2016 it's incredibly naive and reductive to talk about international intervention solely in terms of moral imperatives
Nov 22, 2016 I'd love to hear the logic behind calling hardcore pro-Zionist politicians Neo-Nazis. Holding a country's foreign policy to certain moral standards is something everyone should be doing. Any leader or government can claim they are doing terrible things in the name of what they think is right. If you're into nazi comparisons, you can use Hitler as a clear example of that. But even if we are talking about the repercussions of America's foreign policy, you simply can't defend it. Look at the drone campaign that started under Bush and was expanded under Obama. It has done nothing to combat terrorism, and in fact, has made it easier to recruit. And the same goes for America backing Israel's war crimes. The West Bank is being taken over, and America does everything it can to allow that to happen. What's the benefit? Or even look at the terror watch list, and how it has become a tool of the party in power, instead of actually being a meaningful composition of threats. It's totally delegitimate. Iraq is the most obvious example of this sort of ideology gone wrong, again, creating more extremists than it vanquished. How can you defend any of this? And how can you argue these things have any positive impact on the world? All the polls taken outside of America have shown that people believe the United States is the number one threat to world peace. America should be holding itself to the same standard it expects from everyone else.
Nov 22, 2016 it's late and i'm on two deadlines so i'll get to the rest of your nonsense tomorrow but this sentence alone shows you don't understand the political climate of the united states
Nov 22, 2016 @captain awesome @WPG what do you guys think of congresswoman Tulsi Gubbard? She's being considered for secretary of state, secretary of defense or United Nations ambassador. Would be a great move and a sign of bipartisanship. Have a lot of respect for the way she stood with Bernie and her foreign policy. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/demo...consideration-trump-cabinet/story?id=43696303
Nov 22, 2016 its a political tool by the trump camp to splinter the democratic party. transparent but ~savvy play... id be more impressed if they actually appoint/convince romney/michelle rhee to sign on
Nov 22, 2016 *inflammatory steve bannon being anywhere near the white house is grossly inappropriate. who else are you talking about? and please - the right whining about policing language is a joke....
Nov 22, 2016 Don't you think thats kind of a 1 sided way to look at it? The democratic party is already splintered, lol. Not everything is about partisanship. Tulsi doesn't really agree with the democrats when it comes to foreign policy. She took a while to endorse Hillary and was a pretty hardcore Bernie supporter. I think this would be a great move. She would be a perfect counter to the neo-cons that Trump is appointing. Here she is talking some SENSE about Syria almost a year ago:
Nov 22, 2016 It is not one-sided. It's called politics. And being at least mildly sophisticated to cripple and divide the opposing party. You can have a rosy view of his cabinet picks, if you want. I think it's obvious what he's attempting to do -- beyond the optics for (sry) weak-minded people, it rly makes zero sense.... given what we know about Trump and his choices thus far. How is this going to be a functional, coherent White House
Nov 22, 2016 I'm being optimistic about the possibility of it, and you think it's just a political play lol. It would be great if she was appointed. That's all I am saying. It lines up with some of Trump's anti interventionist ideas. Not a fan of his cabinet picks at all. and again - the democratic party was already crippled. Take a look at what they said to her in an email for supporting Bernie: Romney was a "political play" to make him kiss the ring:
Nov 22, 2016 Lol "grossly inappropriate" doesn't equate to someone being a neo nazi. WPG said Trump is appointing "Neo-Nazis". Plural. You can ask him for the names, but he's clearly not forthcoming with them. And who's talking about policing language? I think it's grossly inappropriate to call people Nazis just because you disagree with them.
Nov 22, 2016 ok so i know you ARE perry... but im not @WPG. you want him, face him. agreed nazi is an overused term but a. a significant base for trump - and bannon - are, yes, white nationalists. there's overlap with the kkk and nazi, culturally. its not just a matter of disagreement b. interestingly, now republicans are - in some cases- DEFENDING NAZIS. remarkable. the gop is in free fall over -- weird time to be alive i mean... what? im viewing this through a political lens. its politics. you yourself just pointed out romney was likely a political play. why wouldnt gabbard?? my overall point if so far trump has displayed no depth for this office. its all parlor tricks, trolling and catering to his alt right base. hes generating false controversies over snl and hamilton to avoid scrutiny and making his cabinet picks into a weird Apprentice spin off. It's disgusting.
Nov 22, 2016 agreed this is basically cabinet apprentice. Trump just posted on twitter that he's considering Ben Carson for a position lol, after Carson said that he doesn't want a position. Not really disagreeing with anything you said there - but gabbard would be a great pick. That was my point. Gabbard is not stuck on partisanship, has shifted from the democrats many times and has shown the willingness to work with Trump. Obviously this is a huge game to Trump- not sure why you are pointing that out. Everyone already knows that. My point is Gabbard would be a good pick.
