peterms Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted October 18, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted October 18, 2018 Duncan Hunter, the vaping congressman who was indicted for using campaign contributions for personal expenditures such as buying a seat on an airplane for the family's pet rabbit, is running a muslim-baiting campaign and has released a letter signed by 3 retired Marine generals saying his opponent is a threat to national security. His opponent, Ammar Campa-Najjar, was born to a Palestinian father who's been out of the country for 20+ years and Mexican mother. He was raised a Christian by his mother and added her surname to his given name, which Hunter is claiming is an attempt to hide his ties to terrorists. Apparently, his paternal grandfather, who died years before he was born, was one of the terrorists who killed the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in '72, so he's a terrorist who can't be trusted with classified information about US military activity in the middle east because he will provide info to muslim terrorists who will do bad things to US troops. Hunter, by the way, originally blamed any mistakes regarding campaign funds on his wife because she has handled all family finances since he was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan when he was a US Marine. His district is solidly Republican and his dad preceded him as its representative. There's actually a good chance that he will be re-elected. Unbelievable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HanoiVillan Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 of course it's not a big deal, and dems are the real villains for failing to stop this bloke who is overseeing the election he himself is standing in blah blah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted October 21, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted October 21, 2018 29 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: of course it's not a big deal, and dems are the real villains for failing to stop this bloke who is overseeing the election he himself is standing in blah blah What are the chances that an awful lot of those people are poor and, ahem, not white? You know, Democrats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 More election season fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 It boggles my mind that supporting gun control can be used in an attack ad. Proper weird country. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 (edited) Well this can surely only be a good thing, right? I mean Gilead having even more nuclear weapons will benefit the whole world, and pulling out of the arms treaty with Russia will calm things down no end. Quote Donald Trump: US will build up nuclear arsenal Share this with Facebook Share this with Messenger Share this with Twitter Share this with Email Share US President Donald Trump has warned that the United States intended to build up its arsenal of nuclear weapons to put pressure on Russia and China. Speaking to reporters, he repeated his contention that Russia had violated the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, which he has threatened to abandon. Russia denies this. The Cold War-era treaty banned medium-range missiles, reducing the perceived Soviet threat to European nations. Mr Trump said the US would build up its arsenal "until people come to their senses". He went on: "It's a threat to whoever you want to include China and it includes Russia and it includes anybody else that wants to play that game... [Russia has] not adhered to the spirit of that agreement or to the agreement itself." Meanwhile, US National Security Adviser John Bolton has been holding talks in Moscow after Russia condemned the US plan to quit the deal. Mr Bolton was told that the US withdrawal would be a "serious blow" to the non-proliferation regime. However, Russia's Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev also said the Kremlin was "ready" to work with the US to remove "mutual" grievances over the INF. As Mr Bolton began his visit, Moscow warned it would take steps to maintain the balance of nuclear power. "We need to hear the American side's explanation on this issue," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "Scrapping the treaty forces Russia to take steps for its own security." What did the treaty do? The INF treaty was signed by US President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, in the final years of the Cold War. It banned ground-launched medium-range missiles, with a range of between 500 and 5,500km (310-3,400 miles), both nuclear and conventional. On Sunday, one of the original signatories of the INF treaty, Mikhail Gorbachev, said a US withdrawal would reverse efforts made to achieve nuclear disarmament. But the US insists the Russians have, in breach of the deal, developed a new medium-range missile called the Novator 9M729 - known to Nato as the SSC-8. It would enable Russia to launch a nuclear strike at Nato countries at very short notice. Withdrawal from the treaty is also seen as a counter-move to China, which has not signed up to the deal and can therefore develop such weapons at will. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45946930 Edit: and at the same time Russia is apparently expanding bases in Kaliningrad at the Baltic sea building bunkers in Primorsk and doubling the amount of missiles in the enclave. Edited October 22, 2018 by sne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted October 22, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted October 22, 2018 He's a jobs President Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Read the last line guys -- China. It's a new world and all agreements need to be updated to reflect the fact that China is now an 800lb gorilla. This is all standard posturing of the empire and has very little to do with the specifics of the present Trump administration. E.g., see the comments made comments by Wes Mitchell to the Senate foreign relations committee in August... widely non-reported on it is worth noting. "The starting point of the National Security Strategy is the recognition that America has entered a period of big-power competition, and that past US policies have neither sufficiently grasped the scope of this emerging trend nor adequately equipped our nation to succeed in it. Contrary to the hopeful assumptions of previous administrations, Russia and China are serious competitors that are building up the material and ideological wherewithal to contest US primacy and leadership in the 21st Century. It continues to be among the foremost national security interests of the United States to prevent the domination of the Eurasian landmass by hostile powers. The central aim of the administration’s foreign policy is to prepare our nation to confront this challenge by systematically strengthening the military, economic and political fundaments of American power." Traceable all the way back to Mackinder. A shining light or some such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 (edited) I am seeing US news are reporting that explosive devices have been sent to the homes of Soros, The Clintons and Barack Obama. Its breaking on the BBC currently. 'Explosive device' sent to Clintons and Obama - US media Quote A suspected explosive device was discovered at the New York home of Bill and Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, law enforcement officials tell US media. A suspicious package was also reportedly sent to the office of former President Barack Obama. It comes two days after a bomb was sent to the home of liberal philanthropist and financier George Soros at his home in the suburbs of New York City. Edited October 24, 2018 by Seat68 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted October 24, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted October 24, 2018 Could be worse. Could have been your friendly neighbourhood maniac with his legally owned 'hunting rifle' just deciding to start shooting once he spotted one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted October 24, 2018 Moderator Share Posted October 24, 2018 I expect Trump to be perched in front of Fox News, rubbing furiously at his yeti pleasure-mushroom. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 24, 2018 Moderator Share Posted October 24, 2018 2 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said: I expect Trump to be perched in front of Fox News, rubbing furiously at his TINY yeti pleasure-mushroom. Fixed for truth and accuracy (Stormy told me) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HanoiVillan Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 I see the due process respecters are hard at work then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted October 24, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted October 24, 2018 Trump's got his next chorus line all sorted now though. 'Blow her up! Blow her up! Blow her up!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted October 24, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted October 24, 2018 Glad I haven't got to go downtown today! (Time Warner is on 59th and my apt is 96th) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 Early contender for 'hottest take': Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted October 24, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted October 24, 2018 Given that each bomb will have numerous ways of identifying its maker, and it appears there's at least a handful of them, we'll soon know if Frank Gaffney is right, or whether he's a lunatic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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