Remember how, just before Christmas, Donald Trump announced that he’d decided to pull our troops out of Syria without having run it by either our allies or our own military leaders? And remember how, at the time, he said that, thanks to his tremendous leadership, ISIS had been defeated in Syria, and how Defense Secretary […]
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If we “defeated ISIS in Syria,” how is it that they killed four American citizens today?
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Benghazi, Caliphate, Donald Trump, ISIS, Jim Mattis, Manbij, Syria, terrorism 4 Comments
Trump invites Pelosi and Shumer into the Oval Office to humiliate him in front of a silent Mike Pence
Someone apparently thought that it would be a good idea for Donald Trump and Mike Pence to invite Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer into the White House today to discuss border security in front of live television cameras. I guess the thinking was that Trump would make them look weak and cowardly. Well, that’s not […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged anti-immigration, border security, border wall, Chuck Schumer, Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi, wall, xenophobia 42 Comments
Military pawns, racist scum, and living in a nation where no-one’s at the helm… Welcome to the #TrumpShutdown
As we discussed last week, in hopes of avoiding a government shutdown, a bipartisan group of Senators led by Lindsey Graham and Dick Durbin went to the White House with a plan that, as they relayed to the President, would pass through both houses of Congress. This compromise legislation, they explained to Donald Trump and […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged #SchumerShutdown, #TrumpShutdown, America First, Bill Kristol, border security, Children's Health Insurance Program, CHIP, Chuck Schumer, Claire McCaskill, DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Dick Durbin, Donal Trump, Donald Trump, Gang of Six, government shutdown, Haiti, immigration, immigration reform, isolationism, Jordan, Lindsey Graham, Mexico, Mitch McConnell, open borders, racism, Rand Paul, shithole, Stephen Miller, support the troops, Tammy Duckworth, Temporary Protected Status, the border with Mexico 245 Comments