President-elect Trump

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Is it a problem that enormous one-sided attention is paid to Israel by Europe when actual genocides are happening elsewhere and nobody bats an eye?

Eyes are batted, sanctions are imposed, but that's beside the point. There were genocides happening in the world during apartheid South Africa, but I don't begrudge the people who pushed the boycotts against them.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

The Brits are in the same boat we are, forgetting Israel is an ally, not a friend.

I think there's a divide in people's attitudes on this subject: do you hold your friends and allies to a higher standard than others, or do you let friends and allies slide? I think the fact that South Africa was a friend and ally fueled the opposition to apartheid in the West, while if they were some dictatorship mistreating their people as dictatorships do, it wouldn't have made as much news.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

do you hold your friends and allies to a higher standard than others, or do you let friends and allies slide?

An American ally, called Pakistan, supported America's invasion of Afghanistan while at the same time protecting the Taliban and bin Laden. Where does one draw each line?

A closest America ally in Iraq are Kurds. And yet The Don would have let them be sacrificed to another American ally called Turkey. Turkey has been less friendly but is a closer ally? Enemy of my enemy is my friend? Does that make that first enemy also an ally?

Clearly answers based in soundbyte reasoning are the largest lies here. And why a leader who makes decisions based in pressure from extremist talk show hosts is an enemy of (threat to) America.

[sexobon]

The US has bailed out on the Kurds more than once before. They know the drill. Allegiances are simply a matter of balancing the human equations. Leftist extremists with low emotional quotients are unable to process the variables. They don't know where the variables fit in the equations because they don't understand them. Then they're afraid of what they don't understand and lash out at it. Nothing new under the sun here.

[tw]

Originally Posted by sexobon

Leftist extremists with low emotional quotients are unable to process the variables.

The wacko extremist would have us believe he knows what math is. Even Barbie knows that "math is hard".

[sexobon]

Tw posts questions; then, insults responders if he doesn't agree with their answers. His childlike behavior invalidates any legitimate premise on which his questions could have been based and are best binned. This is tw uncovered, enemy of We The People.

[henry quirk]

Yes we -- that's you and me, tw -- do.

I wanna wreck anyone and everything in 'government' that isn't minimal and sensible and you, my sweet brother, wanna wreck any opposition to maximal and insensible governance.

Again, we're the same: two horrible people (on opposite sides of the room).

[slang]

Originally Posted by henry quirk

Yes we -- that's you and me, tw -- do.

I wanna wreck anyone and everything in 'government' that isn't minimal and sensible and you, my sweet brother, wanna wreck any opposition to maximal and insensible governance.

Again, we're the same: two horrible people (on opposite sides of the room).

Sensible is a vague term, but I like the way you think.

Smaller government, more freedom, less taxes, more independent citizens, and [edit] more individual responsibility.

That's what I'm dreaming of. Doesn't look like my dream is going to come true, but that's what it is.

[henry quirk]

"Smaller government, more freedom, less taxes, more independent citizens, and more individual responsibility."

yep

"That's what I'm dreaming of. Doesn't look like my dream is going to come true, but that's what it is."

Never know what tomorrow will bring.

[God]

Originally Posted by henry quirk

...Never know what tomorrow will bring.

Someone knows.

Let me put it this way, grab your ankles.

[henry quirk]

"Someone knows."

Nope.

"Let me put it this way, grab your ankles."

Nah, I think I'll work real hard to make the commies do that.

[God]

Originally Posted by henry quirk

...Nah, I think I'll work real hard to make the commies do that.

Yes. Me as well. Metaphorically of course.

We have sort of a... philosophical disagreement. Long running disagreement. Far reaching disagreement.

Keep me posted on your works.

Many people consider me a "game changer" for their cause. A benefactor of sorts.

[ThreadHijackMan]

Whew, sorry I'm late. Traffic.

Ok.

Well, Trump's going to prison anyway. What an asshole.

There. That should do it.

[henry quirk]

God,

Are you Crom?

#

THM,

Maybe he will, maybe he won't: doesn't matter...we'll find us another blunt instrument or we'll just stop playin' the game altogether and do sumthin' different.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Won't happen, the cost of jailing Trump and his secret service entourage would be astronomical.

[Diaphone Jim]

Why is the Trump/Stormy Daniels get together always called an "affair?"
It was a one night (or less) paid-for sexual encounter, known as prostitution.