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Russia Bounty Issue is Indefensible
July 3, 2020 at 1:28 am
You would have to be living under a rock at this point to not know about the revelation that Vladimir Putin has offered bounties for the corpses of American soldiers to the Taliban.
American President Donald Trump has responded with - crickets.
Steve Schmidt, former campaign manager for John McCain trashes the orange turd here.
I have a hard time seeing how Trump can possibly be reelected after this. How can a current active duty military member or a former or retired member vote for Trump after this? If Trump wins reelection after this revelation, I will formally forsake my faith in humanity and the system of democracy. If the people of the USA are stupid enough to vote for Trump after this, this country forfeits its position as a world leader and becomes irrelevant.
I think I will welcome artificial intelligence replacing humanity on this planet as we will have proven ourselves unworthy.
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RE: Russia Bounty Issue is Indefensible
July 3, 2020 at 2:43 am
(This post was last modified: July 3, 2020 at 2:57 am by Anomalocaris.)
there aren’t enough seconds in the last 4 years to write about things trump did, and the republican base condoned, that are sufficiently indefensible such that each one of them would have sufficed to result in a firing squad for trump in any normal country that has renounced capital punishment.
this president overlooking foreign bounty on men of whom he is commander in chief is merely another exhibition of the fact when the chips are really down, those americans who are most sickening in groping the flag are also those who care the least fraction of a wit about the country they profess to love.
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RE: Russia Bounty Issue is Indefensible
July 3, 2020 at 5:33 am
The latest 'defense' of this outrage is that people on the right are pointing the finger at Adam Schiff who, as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, should have done something. Other than holding hearings on the matter (which would have been a monumentally bad idea), they don't say WHAT he should have done. Probably because - legally - he can do nothing. As far as I know, the Pentagon and the national security services work for Trump, not Schiff.
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RE: Russia Bounty Issue is Indefensible
July 3, 2020 at 6:08 am
Admit nothing, deny everything, make counter-accusations.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Russia Bounty Issue is Indefensible
July 3, 2020 at 6:22 am
I wasn’t briefed. Ok, I was briefed, but the intelligence wasn’t verified. Congress’s problem, not mine.
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RE: Russia Bounty Issue is Indefensible
July 3, 2020 at 7:11 am
(This post was last modified: July 3, 2020 at 7:12 am by onlinebiker.)
The problems of intelligence gathering can be multitude.
Unless you hate Trump.
Then - it's all his fault...
Everything.
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RE: Russia Bounty Issue is Indefensible
July 3, 2020 at 7:14 am
(July 3, 2020 at 7:11 am)onlinebiker Wrote: The problems of intelligernce gathering can be multitude.
Unless you hate Trump.
Then - it's all his fault...
Everything.
This one certainly is. The notion that he wasn’t briefed on it doesn’t hold water - it isn’t possible that he wasn’t briefed.
And did nothing. Why? Because he trusts a former KGB operative over his own intelligence services.
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RE: Russia Bounty Issue is Indefensible
July 3, 2020 at 7:15 am
The buck has to stop somewhere. The chief executive officer of the government of the united states seems like a reasonable place. Whether a person hates or loves the current holder of the office, it remains an indisputable fact that the person in question does hold that office, and that we have expectations of anyone who holds it.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Russia Bounty Issue is Indefensible
July 3, 2020 at 8:33 am
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(July 3, 2020 at 7:11 am)onlinebiker Wrote: The problems of intelligence gathering can be multitude.
Unless you hate Trump.
Then - it's all his fault...
Everything.
Of course if YOU are already so forsaken as to not hate trump m0re than those damned liberals, then nothing is his fault. He deserve to be able to spite the liberals forever, any cost to the country would be beneath contempt. Go murica!
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RE: Russia Bounty Issue is Indefensible
July 3, 2020 at 9:43 am
(July 3, 2020 at 8:33 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: (July 3, 2020 at 7:11 am)onlinebiker Wrote: The problems of intelligence gathering can be multitude.
Unless you hate Trump.
Then - it's all his fault...
Everything.
Of course if YOU are already so forsaken as to not hate trump m0re than those damned liberals, then nothing is his fault. He deserve to be able to spite the liberals forever, any cost to the country would be beneath contempt. Go murica!
You got no idea at all what I think.
After a while - listening to your ilk - Trump seems an absolute idiot who is an evil genius....
One or the other.
Pick one.
...
And when you learn ANYTHING about the world of strategic intelligence - come back and we will talk about it....
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