It's funny to watch Trump zealots crucify Hillary for her emails but whiteknight Trump for doing something that's worse in scale in the same breath.
It's funny to watch Trump zealots crucify Hillary for her emails but whiteknight Trump for doing something that's worse in scale in the same breath.
"My successes are my own, but my failures are due to extremist leftist liberals" - Party of Personal Responsibility
Prediction for the future
State Media...err I mean Fox News... is doing a heroic effort trying to bury this.
Shame it's not working.
I think the best way to explain it to the Trumpkins is like this:
"How would you feel if intelligence provided by an American spy was shared with Turkey, and Turkey shared it with the Russians without asking us first?"
This is some fundamental, first grade, golden rule shit.
Forgive my english, as i'm not a native speaker
Yes, yes...... Those who know how to think and use research will know this. But how many Trump supporters will follow that same path of thinking??? We still have Trumpsters supporting this move. The Republicans in Government are supporting this move(unless news sources are starting to say otherwise. I am still looking around)
The point is that Trumptsers will follow that thought and it is the thought of Trump himself.
IMO instead of say what he did say in defense of the indefensible he should have said something like this -
"As an a appointee of the Trump administration I owe a duty to the president, therefore I will not make any statements that impugn the integrity of the President. However to protect my own integrity and honor I cannot and will not make any statements in defense of what was said, and that would portray these allegations as untrue. That is all".
Of course Trump would fire him almost immediately afterward, but what is the price of a mans soul?
Actually no, there's no celebration here. If you're trying to interpret tone, you are exceptionally poor at it.
The big whoop is that the idiot basically confirmed the story by citing his "absolute right". And this isn't limited to just the left. When Bob Corker says your administration is in a downward spiral, it's kind of difficult to pin the reaction as a leftist wet dream. And really, now the perception to our allies is that the POTUS discusses sensitive information with Russian diplomats. That alone should be enough of a concern to you. For some reason you're more concerned about trying to argue semantics, that aren't really semantics.
Johnson would be so ashamed. If he wasn't so busy trying to find out what a world leader means. Maybe he's searching in Aleppo...
He wasn't allowed to physically harm folks. Like hit them or beat them. The stuff you see in TV shows about what authorities do to terrorism. The US did that stuff, in a very limited fashion, from the years 2001-2003. But because we've become so desensitized, half the time terrorists are ever shown up in fiction, the side that has them in custody is routinely violating their human rights. And that's, you know, a war crime.
It's just so disturbing to me. He's this great guy with a huge heart, and I've casually been asked if he's done something hugely illegal, disgusting and inhuman... that also doesn't work. All because that's what they do on TV.
It's the "Law and Order Effect" but for war.
Please continue to sit on your hands GOP, I dare you. Let's wait until the next election, because this is okay.
Thats exactly the point. As soon as the shared it with the Russians, they would've been obliged to enclose this to the ally that produced the information in the first place, before the Russians can use the source of the ally for their own. In this case, the WaPo reporting about it wouldn't change anything. The only situation it does change something is if the administration didn't inform the ally that they shared this information, which would be even worse.
Oh yeah thats a common thing. I mean, probably the best thing to make those terrorist sing like a canary is to treat them humanely. But no one on the US thinks thats the common policy, and that torture is well... a fucking war crime
People dont understand that enemy troop (at least in modern warfare)s dont hate eachother, they just happen to be on the oppsing side of their respective barrels
Last edited by Thepersona; 2017-05-16 at 01:41 PM.
Forgive my english, as i'm not a native speaker