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What stupid shit has Trump done today?

killer b said:
What action might a pissed-off Mossad take against the president of the United States of America?
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More importantly, why should we care what Mossad thinks? Are they now a moral force which has been betrayed or something?
 
The CIA, FBI, arms manufacturers, Israel, Mossad, wall Street, charter schools, coups in Latin America, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, President Pence... all now good.
 
J Ed said:
More importantly, why should we care what Mossad thinks? Are they now a moral force which has been betrayed or something?
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There's no reason that *we* should care what they think, but Trump supporters, especially the religious right, highly value US ties to Israel. They see Israel as indispensible in their world view. Without Israel, it can't be the end times they crave so much. Outing a Mossad agent will likely erode Trumps support (and his ability to push his agenda) just a little bit more. Personally, I'm ok with Trump serving his full four years. He's so wounded that he's not likely to get any of his agenda through. I just hope he does as little damage in the meantime as possible.
 
bimble said:
Really does look like they're in the bunker already, wheels coming off the juggernaut.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/white-house-staff.html?_r=0
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In private, three administration officials conceded that they could not publicly articulate their most compelling — and honest — defense of the president for divulging classified intelligence to the Russians: that Mr. Trump, a hasty and indifferent reader of his briefing materials, simply did not possess the interest or the knowledge of the granular details of intelligence gathering to leak specific sources and methods of intelligence gathering that would harm American allies.
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Translation, that according to his staff, Trump lacks the capacity to understand and retain information to the degree that he'd be incapable of revealing sensitive intel.

Yeah, that's not a great defence for the Leader of the Free World.
 
Yuwipi Woman said:
There's no reason that *we* should care what they think, but Trump supporters, especially the religious right, highly value US ties to Israel. They see Israel as indispensible in their world view. Without Israel, it can't be the end times they crave so much. Outing a Mossad agent will likely erode Trumps support (and his ability to push his agenda) just a little bit more. Personally, I'm ok with Trump serving his full four years. He's so wounded that he's not likely to get any of his agenda through. I just hope he does as little damage in the meantime as possible.
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Mossad may be an over rated bunch of thugs but they do occasionally supply useful intelligence to the US. So do other foreign agencies. The Israelis probably will be forgiving but they may well extract a political price for such an error. Making Americans feel incredibly guilty is something they are good at.

If Trump can't be trusted to handle affairs discretely that's a problem in itself. How can such a President conduct diplomacy at all as that often involves handling the affairs of other in confidence. Trump too often blunders about scaring allies and sowing confusion. His team is constantly running after him to clear up like he was an incontinent house pet.

He has always appeared not just unqualified for office but actually temperamentally unsuitable. Unfortunately it's precisely these rogue outsider qualities that got him elected.

There's been a trend towards Presidents that are better at running than governing. Trump was pretty mediocre at the former compared to both Bush and Obama. Neither of them can be said to have been effective Presidents but they had some political experience and were at least level headed men surrounded by effective fully staffed teams.
 
J Ed said:
The narrative of the thread as we breathlessly go from one contextless gotcha outrage to the next.
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Well, maybe ... but this is also about Trump himself. His permanent narcissism and inability to play by even the most nominal rules of his role mean it's an outrage a day, making it harder for any narrative or head of steam to build up in the normal way. I remember hearing some breathless David Attenborough style commentary about how it's quite difficult for a lion to take down a wilderbeest when surrounded by a stampede of them. It just can't focus enough on a single victim. As always the bigger issue should be about Trump and his role pushing a variant of neo-liberalism and I'd be the very last one to worry about him 'demeaning the normal rule of the office', but his bizarre personality and ability to have a deniability about even the words he speaks in the public domain mean that he's the ultimate moving target. Well, that's not quite correct - he's the ultimate immovable target. The fact that he is this bizarre infant, Berllusconi on steroids, what you see is what you get figure is something his critics can see, but not really deal with.
 
Over the course of your life, you will find that things are not always fair. You will find that things happen to you that you do not deserve and that are not always warranted...

Look at the way I’ve been treated lately. Especially by the media. No politician in history, and I say with with great surety, has been treated worse, or more unfairly. You can’t let them get you down. You can’t let the critics and the naysayers get in the way of your dreams...

The more righteous your fight, the more opposition you will face. I have accomplished a tremendous amount in a very short time and president.”
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I have to say, this is very funny
 
Even funnier, Stephen Miller is going to write Trump's speech about Islam which he is going to deliver in Saudi Arabia......
 
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Russian strategic doctrine suggests that it sees hacking as a very specific kind of warfare. In an influential 2013 article, Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery V. Gerasimov argued that “non-military means,” including “new information technologies,” have eclipsed traditional weaponry in their strategic importance.

“In the 21st century we have seen a tendency toward blurring the lines between the states of war and peace,” he wrote. "The role of non-military means of achieving political and strategic goals has grown, and, in many cases, they have exceeded the power of force of weapons in their effectiveness.”


The goal of Gerasimov-style interventions isn’t solely to elect leaders who will pursue Kremlin-friendly policies. It’s also to exacerbate internal divisions in hostile countries — to distract them with paralyzing infighting that makes it difficult for them to counter Russian strategic moves internationally.

It’s debatable whether the hack of Hillary Clinton allies was decisive in the election. And Trump has been far more pro-NATO and anti-Assad than his campaign rhetoric would have suggested, surely a disappointment to Moscow.

But what is absolutely unquestionable is that Russia’s intervention in the election created chaos in the US political system. It raised questions about the Trump campaign’s connections to Russia — spawning a series of investigations and scandals that have paralyzed Trump’s foreign policy and legislative agenda.
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Vladimir Putin took time at a press conference to gloat about Trump
 
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