United States vs. ?

morekaos said:
Give me a break. The left bent over backwards calling the Tillerson nomination payback to Putin for winning the election for Trump.  Now he's being fired is a nod to Russia?  You can't have it both ways.

Tillerson won?t fight Russian election meddling

The Kremlin reportedly wanted a more accommodating secretary of state than Mitt Romney.

The question is whether these two stories are connected. In other words, was Tillerson Russia?s preferred secretary of state? And if so, are the Russians in fact getting just what they wanted? And, therefore, should Special Counsel Robert Muller be looking into how Tillerson came to be nominated?

Significantly, few of the recent stories have pointed out that Tillerson has a two decade-long relationship with Russia and Putin. Indeed, at the time Trump nominated Tillerson, former CEO of ExxonMobil, he had been the director of the U.S.-Russian oil firm Neftgas since 1998.


https://thinkprogress.org/mueller-investigation-tillerson-russia-5f7c2b94d1dc/

The funny thing is that story was published just last week... LOL!

Confirmation bias is when people use any new piece of data to confirm their existing beliefs.  That is exactly what is happening here.
 
Sexist- and misogynist-in-chief appoints first-ever female CIA director...wait, what?

Trump's pick for new CIA director is female career spymaster

WASHINGTON ?  President Donald Trump's choice to be the first female director of the CIA is a career spymaster who once ran an agency prison in Thailand where terror suspects were subjected to a harsh interrogation technique that the president has supported.

Trump tweeted Tuesday that he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and that he has selected Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo. Haspel, the current deputy CIA director, also helped carry out an order that the agency destroy its waterboarding videos. That order prompted a lengthy Justice Department investigation that ended without charges.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/13/trumps-pick-for-new-cia-director-is-female-career-spymaster.html
 
Kings said:
Sexist- and misogynist-in-chief appoints first-ever female CIA director...wait, what?

Trump's pick for new CIA director is female career spymaster

WASHINGTON ?  President Donald Trump's choice to be the first female director of the CIA is a career spymaster who once ran an agency prison in Thailand where terror suspects were subjected to a harsh interrogation technique that the president has supported.

Trump tweeted Tuesday that he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and that he has selected Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo. Haspel, the current deputy CIA director, also helped carry out an order that the agency destroy its waterboarding videos. That order prompted a lengthy Justice Department investigation that ended without charges.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/13/trumps-pick-for-new-cia-director-is-female-career-spymaster.html

Yes...just like Trump can't be racist or a white nationalist because he has Ben Carson as HUD secretary. 
 
I'm sure appointing the former head of the CIA as Secretary of State is exactly what Russia was hoping for.
 
Irvinecommuter said:
Kings said:
Sexist- and misogynist-in-chief appoints first-ever female CIA director...wait, what?

Trump's pick for new CIA director is female career spymaster

WASHINGTON ?  President Donald Trump's choice to be the first female director of the CIA is a career spymaster who once ran an agency prison in Thailand where terror suspects were subjected to a harsh interrogation technique that the president has supported.

Trump tweeted Tuesday that he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and that he has selected Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo. Haspel, the current deputy CIA director, also helped carry out an order that the agency destroy its waterboarding videos. That order prompted a lengthy Justice Department investigation that ended without charges.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/13/trumps-pick-for-new-cia-director-is-female-career-spymaster.html

Yes...just like Trump can't be racist or a white nationalist because he has Ben Carson as HUD secretary.

You think everybody's racist.  It's part of your Trump Derangement Syndrome.
 
Liar Loan said:
Irvinecommuter said:
Kings said:
Sexist- and misogynist-in-chief appoints first-ever female CIA director...wait, what?

Trump's pick for new CIA director is female career spymaster

WASHINGTON ?  President Donald Trump's choice to be the first female director of the CIA is a career spymaster who once ran an agency prison in Thailand where terror suspects were subjected to a harsh interrogation technique that the president has supported.

Trump tweeted Tuesday that he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and that he has selected Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo. Haspel, the current deputy CIA director, also helped carry out an order that the agency destroy its waterboarding videos. That order prompted a lengthy Justice Department investigation that ended without charges.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/13/trumps-pick-for-new-cia-director-is-female-career-spymaster.html

Yes...just like Trump can't be racist or a white nationalist because he has Ben Carson as HUD secretary.

You think everybody's racist.  It's part of your Trump Derangement Syndrome.

You think racism doesn't exist...it's part of your Trump delusion syndrome.
 
Irvinecommuter said:
Liar Loan said:
Irvinecommuter said:
Kings said:
Sexist- and misogynist-in-chief appoints first-ever female CIA director...wait, what?

Trump's pick for new CIA director is female career spymaster

WASHINGTON ?  President Donald Trump's choice to be the first female director of the CIA is a career spymaster who once ran an agency prison in Thailand where terror suspects were subjected to a harsh interrogation technique that the president has supported.

Trump tweeted Tuesday that he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and that he has selected Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo. Haspel, the current deputy CIA director, also helped carry out an order that the agency destroy its waterboarding videos. That order prompted a lengthy Justice Department investigation that ended without charges.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/13/trumps-pick-for-new-cia-director-is-female-career-spymaster.html

Yes...just like Trump can't be racist or a white nationalist because he has Ben Carson as HUD secretary.

You think everybody's racist.  It's part of your Trump Derangement Syndrome.

You think racism doesn't exist...it's part of your Trump delusion syndrome.

Your definition of racism on the Trump thread had lot's of qualifiers and exceptions.  It was, what, five paragraphs long or something? 

My definition is very basic and only seven words long.  Therefore, I'm not giving anybody a free pass (unlike you).
 
Liar Loan said:
Irvinecommuter said:
Liar Loan said:
Irvinecommuter said:
Kings said:
Sexist- and misogynist-in-chief appoints first-ever female CIA director...wait, what?

Trump's pick for new CIA director is female career spymaster

WASHINGTON ?  President Donald Trump's choice to be the first female director of the CIA is a career spymaster who once ran an agency prison in Thailand where terror suspects were subjected to a harsh interrogation technique that the president has supported.

Trump tweeted Tuesday that he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and that he has selected Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo. Haspel, the current deputy CIA director, also helped carry out an order that the agency destroy its waterboarding videos. That order prompted a lengthy Justice Department investigation that ended without charges.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/13/trumps-pick-for-new-cia-director-is-female-career-spymaster.html

Yes...just like Trump can't be racist or a white nationalist because he has Ben Carson as HUD secretary.

You think everybody's racist.  It's part of your Trump Derangement Syndrome.

You think racism doesn't exist...it's part of your Trump delusion syndrome.

Your definition of racism on the Trump thread had lot's of qualifiers and exceptions.  It was, what, five paragraphs long or something? 

My definition is very basic and only seven words long.  Therefore, I'm not giving anybody a free pass (unlike you).

Nope...you have acknowledged that you don't care about racism or what it is and that nuance is not something you care about, especially on social issues.  So, racism doesn't exist and/or matter to you.
 
Irvinecommuter said:
Liar Loan said:
Irvinecommuter said:
Liar Loan said:
Irvinecommuter said:
Kings said:
Sexist- and misogynist-in-chief appoints first-ever female CIA director...wait, what?

Trump's pick for new CIA director is female career spymaster

WASHINGTON ?  President Donald Trump's choice to be the first female director of the CIA is a career spymaster who once ran an agency prison in Thailand where terror suspects were subjected to a harsh interrogation technique that the president has supported.

Trump tweeted Tuesday that he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and that he has selected Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo. Haspel, the current deputy CIA director, also helped carry out an order that the agency destroy its waterboarding videos. That order prompted a lengthy Justice Department investigation that ended without charges.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/13/trumps-pick-for-new-cia-director-is-female-career-spymaster.html

Yes...just like Trump can't be racist or a white nationalist because he has Ben Carson as HUD secretary.

You think everybody's racist.  It's part of your Trump Derangement Syndrome.

You think racism doesn't exist...it's part of your Trump delusion syndrome.

Your definition of racism on the Trump thread had lot's of qualifiers and exceptions.  It was, what, five paragraphs long or something? 

My definition is very basic and only seven words long.  Therefore, I'm not giving anybody a free pass (unlike you).

Nope...you have acknowledged that you don't care about racism or what it is and that nuance is not something you care about, especially on social issues.  So, racism doesn't exist and/or matter to you.

You have wished for the deaths of old, Fox-addled white people on this forum many times.  Not as a joke, but as a serious desire on your part.  Your definition of racism, I assume, is meant to justify these desires in your own mind.
 
Irvinecommuter said:
Kings said:
Sexist- and misogynist-in-chief appoints first-ever female CIA director...wait, what?

Trump's pick for new CIA director is female career spymaster

WASHINGTON ?  President Donald Trump's choice to be the first female director of the CIA is a career spymaster who once ran an agency prison in Thailand where terror suspects were subjected to a harsh interrogation technique that the president has supported.

Trump tweeted Tuesday that he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and that he has selected Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo. Haspel, the current deputy CIA director, also helped carry out an order that the agency destroy its waterboarding videos. That order prompted a lengthy Justice Department investigation that ended without charges.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/13/trumps-pick-for-new-cia-director-is-female-career-spymaster.html

Yes...just like Trump can't be racist or a white nationalist because he has Ben Carson as HUD secretary.

Damn racist white people appointing black people to positions of power!
 
You forget to add linked to torture site. (According to the article below)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...a-haspel-trump-cia-director-torture-site-link

Kings said:
Sexist- and misogynist-in-chief appoints first-ever female CIA director...wait, what?

Trump's pick for new CIA director is female career spymaster

WASHINGTON ?  President Donald Trump's choice to be the first female director of the CIA is a career spymaster who once ran an agency prison in Thailand where terror suspects were subjected to a harsh interrogation technique that the president has supported.

Trump tweeted Tuesday that he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and that he has selected Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo. Haspel, the current deputy CIA director, also helped carry out an order that the agency destroy its waterboarding videos. That order prompted a lengthy Justice Department investigation that ended without charges.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/13/trumps-pick-for-new-cia-director-is-female-career-spymaster.html
 
eyephone said:
You forget to add linked to torture site. (According to the article below)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...a-haspel-trump-cia-director-torture-site-link

Kings said:
Sexist- and misogynist-in-chief appoints first-ever female CIA director...wait, what?

Trump's pick for new CIA director is female career spymaster

WASHINGTON ?  President Donald Trump's choice to be the first female director of the CIA is a career spymaster who once ran an agency prison in Thailand where terror suspects were subjected to a harsh interrogation technique that the president has supported.

Trump tweeted Tuesday that he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and that he has selected Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo. Haspel, the current deputy CIA director, also helped carry out an order that the agency destroy its waterboarding videos. That order prompted a lengthy Justice Department investigation that ended without charges.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/13/trumps-pick-for-new-cia-director-is-female-career-spymaster.html

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of this pick for that reason.  If she's willing to bend the law on human rights, what else is she capable of?
 
Seriously...if Rick Perry was unqualified to be the head of the Department of Energy...I don't even have the words to describe his lack of qualifications to be the head of the VA

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has grown irritated with his embattled Veterans Affairs secretary, David Shulkin, and is now making plans to remove him from his post, two sources familiar with the move tell CNN.

Trump has eyed Energy Secretary Rick Perry as a possible replacement, a person familiar with the matter said.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/politics/rick-perry-david-shulkin-veterans-affairs/index.html
 
Liar Loan said:
eyephone said:
You forget to add linked to torture site. (According to the article below)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...a-haspel-trump-cia-director-torture-site-link

Kings said:
Sexist- and misogynist-in-chief appoints first-ever female CIA director...wait, what?

Trump's pick for new CIA director is female career spymaster

WASHINGTON ?  President Donald Trump's choice to be the first female director of the CIA is a career spymaster who once ran an agency prison in Thailand where terror suspects were subjected to a harsh interrogation technique that the president has supported.

Trump tweeted Tuesday that he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and that he has selected Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo. Haspel, the current deputy CIA director, also helped carry out an order that the agency destroy its waterboarding videos. That order prompted a lengthy Justice Department investigation that ended without charges.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/13/trumps-pick-for-new-cia-director-is-female-career-spymaster.html

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of this pick for that reason.  If she's willing to bend the law on human rights, what else is she capable of?

I like her. (surprise).  A little torture is OK with me.  Long ago I used to hang with a few operators in Seal team 6 out of Norfolk.  Long story but when they were doing Sears and Buds I got waterboarded with them.  Not the best experience but certainly not life threatening.  Dems are gonna have to take up a position against the first woman to be nominated to head the agency.  Should be an interesting fight.
 
You may not like Trumps style but you can't argue with the results.

Mysterious, high-security train from North Korea to Beijing sparks rumours that Kim Jong Un is in China

The mysterious journey of a train from North Korea to Beijing has sparked wide speculation that Kim Jong Un, or a high-level North Korean delegation, has travelled to China.
This would be the first time Kim has left North Korea since becoming its ruler, and could lead to his first meeting with another head of state.
The train?s trip fits the profile of previous Kim family trips, and there are plenty of reasons to believe Kim and Chinese President Xi Jinping may want to talk.

Did Trump make this happen?

Sun said that China has attempted to meet with Kim in the past, but rising tensions as North Korea?s nuclear testing heated up derailed the preparations and deteriorated bilateral relations. Previously, China saw Kim as defiant and abusing Beijing?s support for the country, and denied them ?the honour, the validation, of having a meeting? with Xi.

?The only variable has changed,? in the Pyongyang-Beijing relationship, according to Sun, is that Trump accepted a face-to-face meeting with Kim, which she said may have ?motivated the Chinese to change their mind.?

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/mysterious-north-korea-train-kim-jong-un-china-rumors-2018-3
 
You can't start to bargain until you have established a contrary position...again, results..

China's premier pledges to open markets in a bid to avert a trade war with the US

Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday China and the U.S. should maintain negotiations and he reiterated pledges to ease access for American businesses.
Li told a conference that included global chief executives that China would treat foreign and domestic firms equally.
He added that China would not force foreign firms to transfer technology and would strengthen intellectual property rights.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/26/chinas-premier-pledges-to-open-markets-in-a-bid-to-avert-a-trade-war-with-the-us.html
 
Just like I told you..

Commerce Secretary Ross says market is realizing the tariffs are bargaining chips for better trade deals

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the South Korea trade agreement portends well for potential agreements with other countries.
He said the Trump administration is also making progress with the European community and China.
Financial markets last week reacted violently to trade action against China, but were soothed by comments from Steven Mnuchin that he was hopeful for a negotiated agreement.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/27/ross-says-market-is-realizing-tariffs-are-bargaining-chips.html

 
Sorry turning the market upside down re: tarrifs is not the way to go.

morekaos said:
Just like I told you..

Commerce Secretary Ross says market is realizing the tariffs are bargaining chips for better trade deals

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the South Korea trade agreement portends well for potential agreements with other countries.
He said the Trump administration is also making progress with the European community and China.
Financial markets last week reacted violently to trade action against China, but were soothed by comments from Steven Mnuchin that he was hopeful for a negotiated agreement.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/27/ross-says-market-is-realizing-tariffs-are-bargaining-chips.html
 
?Mystery train rumored to carry Kim Jong Un leaves China after secretive stay

A mysterious and heavily guarded 21-car train that chugged into China's capital Monday -- bringing with it rumors that North Korean despot Kim Jong Un was aboard -- departed Tuesday just as suddenly as it arrived, and bound for destinations unknown.

Kim was identified as the likely VIP passenger after North Korea watchers noted the green diesel with the yellow stripe down the side looked just like the trains that ferried the despot's late father to meetings in China and Russia -- and on which Kim Jong Il eventually died of a heart attack.?
https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxn...un-leaves-china-after-secretive-stay.amp.html

 
Back
Top