I hope the Russiaphobes are happy now

[christiefan915]

The great deal maker! Hahahahahahaha- you fell for it.

This is what the National Review--- National Review!---- has to say about the great deal maker.

"Trump is the political version of a pickup artist, and Republicans — and America — went to bed with him convinced that he was something other than what he is. Trump inherited his fortune but describes himself as though he were a self-made man.

He has had a middling career in real estate and a poor one as a hotelier and casino operator but convinced people he is a titan of industry. He has never managed a large, complex corporate enterprise, but he did play an executive on a reality show. He presents himself as a confident ladies’ man but is so insecure that he invented an imaginary friend to lie to the New York press about his love life and is now married to a woman who is open and blasé about the fact that she married him for his money.

He fixates on certain words (“negotiator”) and certain classes of words (mainly adjectives and adverbs, “bigly,” “major,” “world-class,” “top,” and superlatives), but he isn’t much of a negotiator, manager, or leader. He cannot negotiate a health-care deal among members of a party desperate for one, can’t manage his own factionalized and leak-ridden White House, and cannot lead a political movement that aspires to anything greater than the service of his own pathetic vanity. He wants to be John Wayne, but what he is is “Woody Allen without the humor.”

Peggy Noonan, to whom we owe that observation, has his number: He is soft, weak, whimpering, and petulant. He isn’t smart enough to do the job and isn’t man enough to own up to the fact. For all his gold-plated toilets, he is at heart that middling junior salesman watching Glengarry Glen Ross and thinking to himself: “That’s the man I want to be.” How many times do you imagine he has stood in front of a mirror trying to project like Alec Baldwin? Unfortunately for the president, it’s Baldwin who does the good imitation of Trump, not the other way around."

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449988/donald-trump-cant-close-deal-failing-salesman

 

[dukkha]

You LOST this argument long ago.

Your research failed you.

I have no doubt the piece you posted is nothing but propaganda .. not interested.

Yes, indeed I'm savoring this.

.. real tasty.

ROFL @ "propaganda".
"I can't make you think" good brother if you are content to feel. enjoy the Cold War 2 sandwich

 

[dukkha]

I'd love be to see what percentage of Rumpers were also huge "W" Gulf war fans.

id be really' really careful of calling Trumpsters warmongers -especially since you backed Hillary Clinton.

 

[Sailor]

"The U.S. Senate had voted almost unanimously on Thursday to slap new sanctions on Russia..."

So it's not just the Democrats who are Russiaphobes, huh.

That was a small part of that bill. It also increases sanctions on Iran and N. Korea among other things. A little give and take finally in Congress.

 

[Cancel 2018.2]

Eh, not really. While I never claim to be an expert, I've been pretty spot on when it comes to foreign policy over the years.

But, I appreciate your need to troll.

I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty spot on

 

[Cancel 2020.1]

This is what the National Review--- National Review!---- has to say about the great deal maker.

"Trump is the political version of a pickup artist, and Republicans — and America — went to bed with him convinced that he was something other than what he is. Trump inherited his fortune but describes himself as though he were a self-made man.

He has had a middling career in real estate and a poor one as a hotelier and casino operator but convinced people he is a titan of industry. He has never managed a large, complex corporate enterprise, but he did play an executive on a reality show. He presents himself as a confident ladies’ man but is so insecure that he invented an imaginary friend to lie to the New York press about his love life and is now married to a woman who is open and blasé about the fact that she married him for his money.

He fixates on certain words (“negotiator”) and certain classes of words (mainly adjectives and adverbs, “bigly,” “major,” “world-class,” “top,” and superlatives), but he isn’t much of a negotiator, manager, or leader. He cannot negotiate a health-care deal among members of a party desperate for one, can’t manage his own factionalized and leak-ridden White House, and cannot lead a political movement that aspires to anything greater than the service of his own pathetic vanity. He wants to be John Wayne, but what he is is “Woody Allen without the humor.”

Peggy Noonan, to whom we owe that observation, has his number: He is soft, weak, whimpering, and petulant. He isn’t smart enough to do the job and isn’t man enough to own up to the fact. For all his gold-plated toilets, he is at heart that middling junior salesman watching Glengarry Glen Ross and thinking to himself: “That’s the man I want to be.” How many times do you imagine he has stood in front of a mirror trying to project like Alec Baldwin? Unfortunately for the president, it’s Baldwin who does the good imitation of Trump, not the other way around."

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449988/donald-trump-cant-close-deal-failing-salesman

The bolded is stand up & cheer stuff. Noonan has always been someone on the conservative side who I respect - articulate & principled, like Buckley was in his day.

So many conservatives have abandoned their principles (and reason) for Trump.

 

[christiefan915]

The bolded is stand up & cheer stuff. Noonan has always been someone on the conservative side who I respect - articulate & principled, like Buckley was in his day.

So many conservatives have abandoned their principles (and reason) for Trump.

He had no clue what it meant to be president, how to run a country and how to work with people rather than just order them around. Some of the gaffes he makes about governing or the Constitution are really embarrassing, it's stuff we all learned back in school.

 

[Cancel 2020.1]

He had no clue what it meant to be president, how to run a country and how to work with people rather than just order them around. Some of the gaffes he makes about governing or the Constitution are really embarrassing, it's stuff we all learned back in school.

It should have tipped everyone off when he said his favorite book was "All Quiet on the Western Front."

Trump's success in business is idiot savant kind of stuff; people thought it reflected genius, but he really just has an uncanny knack for manipulating people and spewing BS effectively.

He's in so far over his head. I rationalize by saying that maybe America had to hit this low point, but it is going to be a really tough 4 years.

 

[blackascoal]

This is what the National Review--- National Review!---- has to say about the great deal maker.

"Trump is the political version of a pickup artist, and Republicans — and America — went to bed with him convinced that he was something other than what he is. Trump inherited his fortune but describes himself as though he were a self-made man.

He has had a middling career in real estate and a poor one as a hotelier and casino operator but convinced people he is a titan of industry. He has never managed a large, complex corporate enterprise, but he did play an executive on a reality show. He presents himself as a confident ladies’ man but is so insecure that he invented an imaginary friend to lie to the New York press about his love life and is now married to a woman who is open and blasé about the fact that she married him for his money.

He fixates on certain words (“negotiator”) and certain classes of words (mainly adjectives and adverbs, “bigly,” “major,” “world-class,” “top,” and superlatives), but he isn’t much of a negotiator, manager, or leader. He cannot negotiate a health-care deal among members of a party desperate for one, can’t manage his own factionalized and leak-ridden White House, and cannot lead a political movement that aspires to anything greater than the service of his own pathetic vanity. He wants to be John Wayne, but what he is is “Woody Allen without the humor.”

Peggy Noonan, to whom we owe that observation, has his number: He is soft, weak, whimpering, and petulant. He isn’t smart enough to do the job and isn’t man enough to own up to the fact. For all his gold-plated toilets, he is at heart that middling junior salesman watching Glengarry Glen Ross and thinking to himself: “That’s the man I want to be.” How many times do you imagine he has stood in front of a mirror trying to project like Alec Baldwin? Unfortunately for the president, it’s Baldwin who does the good imitation of Trump, not the other way around."

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449988/donald-trump-cant-close-deal-failing-salesman

National Review .. that's gotta' hurt.

 

[blackascoal]

ROFL @ "propaganda".
"I can't make you think" good brother if you are content to feel. enjoy the Cold War 2 sandwich

I can think real good without your direction brother .. and your admonitions to think are fucking hilarious coming from someone who voted for the absolute worse president in our history .. worse in under 6 months.

.. and here you are telling other people to 'think.' :0) Hilarious

 

[Darth Omar]

I'd love be to see what percentage of Rumpers were also huge "W" Gulf war fans.

Ok, Thingy lol.

So what if we were. Iraq was 13 years ago and maybe we learned a thing or two.

But what has the left and the democrats learned from it? Very little, if anything. They opposed Iraq, not out of principle, but because it was 'Bush's war'. But something happened to them after Bush was gone.

Suddenly, they became tepid when Hillary and Obama indulged in regime change in Libya and turned Libya into an Islamist hell-hole that contributed to a refugee crisis in Europe. One can only imagine their outrage had Bush still been in office.

Trump has made strides in Syria by being the 'anti-Bush/anti-Obama' in calling off our support for regime change in that country.

The left should be cheering, but they're not. They'd prefer to stick it to Russia over some unproven allegations over an election. Even if it means our CIA was getting weapons into the hands of al Qaeda off-shoots and turning Syria into, yet another, Islamist hellhole.

Iraq was 13 years ago, where are they now?

 

[Cancel 2020.1]

Ok, Thingy lol.

So what if we were. Iraq was 13 years ago and maybe we learned a thing or two.

You don't get that kind of pass.

You should never weigh in on foreign policy again. Ever.

 

[Darth Omar]

You don't get that kind of pass.

You should never weigh in on foreign policy again. Ever.

I just did, and you have no apparent answer for it.

 

[blackascoal]

id be really' really careful of calling Trumpsters warmongers -especially since you backed Hillary Clinton.

Damn, this sandwich is good.

Senate Joins House in Overwhelmingly Passing New Russian Sanctions
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...lmingly-passing-new-russian-sanctions-n787291

Better than the shit sandwich you're now forced to eat.

 

[Cancel 2020.1]

I just did, and you have no apparent answer for it.

Oh - you mean where you tried to compare the left's support for an investigation into Russian meddling in a U.S. election to the mindless cheerleading you & yours did for INVADING a country that had nothing to do w/ 9/11 and which turned into a 10-year war and which you now think you can just say "oops" on?

You mean that?

 

[Darth Omar]

Oh - you mean where you tried to compare the left's support for an investigation into Russian meddling in a U.S. election to the mindless cheerleading you & yours did for INVADING a country that had nothing to do w/ 9/11 and which turned into a 10-year war and which you now think you can just say "oops" on?

You mean that?

No, I'm calling out your hypocrisy.

 

[Cancel 2020.1]

No, I'm calling out your hypocrisy.

Where have I been hypocritical?

Do you see me calling for invasion or any use of the military whatsoever?

Please be detailed in your response. I don't think you understand what "hypocrisy" means. Just one more we can add to the list for you.

 

[Cypress]

^ grotesque misunderstanding of realpolitik in favor of 'kicking the dog' analysis
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"How I'm stuck on sanctions because I can't parrot anything else due to Russiaphobic infections"

I am not buying your philosophy about Russia since it is neither genuine, principled, or consistent.

Your (nearly daily) defense and deflection for the Kremlin almost precisely coincides in time with the news Russian intelligence agencies were trying to aid the Trump campaign defeat Sec State Clinton. Any reasonable person easily comes to the conclusion your defense of the Kremlin is based only on your uber partisan love affair with President Pussy Grabber.

I have actually had relatives sent to the Gulag, so I do not - and never have - had illusions about Russian totalitarians.
No sentient adult thinks we cannot work with Russia where mutual interests are found. I have spent a lifetime hoping that liberals in Russia will prevail, and democratic institutions take hold. But Putin is an authoritarian, and ex-KBG strongman. Your alliance of convenience with Putin, motivated solely by your hyper partisan love of Trump, is really transparent, fake, flimsy, and frankly insulting to a thinking person.

 

[Darth Omar]

Where have I been hypocritical?

Do you see me calling for invasion or any use of the military whatsoever?

Please be detailed in your response. I don't think you understand what "hypocrisy" means. Just one more we can add to the list for you.

Did you congratulate Trump for scoring a cease fire in Syria? No. Did you so much as give a golf clap to Trump for removing our CIA support for the anti-Assad rebels/Terrorists in Syria? No. Or again, when Trump gave the order to not indirectly assist in regime change in Syria? No.

You apparently have been going on for 13 years about Iraq, yet when someone comes along that reverses the same policy that led to Iraq, you have nothing to say about it.

Do you tell your liberal mates they can't ever comment on foreign policy again, even though they were voting for a candidate who had a direct hand in doing another Iraq in Libya? The only difference is it was clumsier and made absolutely no foreign policy sense whatsoever.

Hypocrite.

 

[Cancel 2020.1]

Did you congratulate Trump for scoring a cease fire in Syria? No. Did you so much as give a golf clap to Trump for removing our CIA support for the anti-Assad rebels/Terrorists in Syria? No. Or again, when Trump gave the order to not indirectly assist in regime change in Syria? No.

You apparently have been going on for 13 years about Iraq, yet when someone comes along that reverses the same policy that led to Iraq, you have nothing to say about it.

Do you tell your liberal mates they can't ever comment on foreign policy again, even though they were voting for a candidate who had a direct hand in doing another Iraq in Libya? The only difference is it was clumsier and made absolutely no foreign policy sense whatsoever.

Hypocrite.

I'm literally laughing my arse off.

Did I "congratulate Trump?" Is that the very best you have in your big case against me for my "hypocrisy?"

You're really a unique sort of political hack. What a completely lame accusation & post. A total fail.