View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
think positive
Side By Side
Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere
|
Post subject: | |
|
Oh
My
God!
Now there's a how embarrassment right there! What a tool. Yep sack him, agree with this guy:
"Brian Schatz, a Democratic senator from Hawaii, tweeted: “I find nothing funny about the Press Secretary bungling holocaust history. Because I’m not sure they should get the benefit of the doubt.” Both Cardin and Schatz are Jewish."
These people are in power? That is seriously scary. _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
|
|
|
|
Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
|
Post subject: | |
|
^^^ I thought Spicer's acknowledgement of the existence of "Holocaust Centres" was the most telling bit - that he apparently couldn't bring the expressions "extermination camps", "concentration camps" or "gas chambers" to the front of his mind under pressure is likely, sadly, to be indicative of his real views on the subject. |
|
|
|
|
think positive
Side By Side
Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere
|
Post subject: | |
|
Yeah that really is very telling, and so bloody disrespectful! He makes them sound like holiday camps or welfare organisations.
Lot of Jewish people in the USA, and they certainly won't appreciate it. Pass the popcorn for the backlash. _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
|
|
|
|
Mugwump
Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Location: Between London and Melbourne
|
Post subject: | |
|
^ in other news, Sean Spicer is exposed as an idiot and an inarticulate buffoon. It is lucky we found out now, as he has hidden it so well hitherto. _________________ Two more flags before I die! |
|
|
|
|
David
to wish impossible things
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: the edge of the deep green sea
|
Post subject: | |
|
On the upside, it's kind of a miracle that these guys have even heard about anything that happened before 1980. _________________ "Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange |
|
|
|
|
stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
|
|
|
|
|
swoop42
Whatcha gonna do when he comes for you?
Joined: 02 Aug 2008 Location: The 18
|
Post subject: | |
|
Things could get very serious very quickly with North Korea if Trump does something stupid.
Trouble is when it comes to Trump wild thoughts of him being an actual agent of Russia, a puppet of some secretive organisation or merely a servant of the American war machine and the companies who stand to make billions from the conflict of war aren't so far fetched.
Even his supporters would have to admit you can't say with any comforting certainty what he may do if North Korea go ahead with another nuclear or ballistic missile test. _________________ He's mad. He's bad. He's MaynHARD! |
|
|
|
|
Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
|
Post subject: | |
|
He might go, as it were, ballistic? |
|
|
|
|
David
to wish impossible things
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: the edge of the deep green sea
|
Post subject: | |
|
It's a recipe as old as the hills. People love a good bombing.
I found this a good analysis of what he's doing:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/14/donald-trump-afghanistan-bomb-syria-wild-card
Quote: | Now the president has tasted the sweet cup of war. A measure of his absurdity is that the beneficiary of the Massive Ordnance Air Blast (Moab) missile dropped on the Afghan mountains will be the local rivals of its alleged Isis victims, the rebel Taliban. It is doubtful that Trump worries about this irony. He just wanted to be seen, as he once put it, to “bomb the shit out of Isis”. He is now so hooked on gesture bombings that he holds a press conference to boast of each one.
The obscenity of the US’s legally questionable power projection is that it wins no battles and gains no territory. Western armies are clearly exhausted by fruitless ground wars in distant parts of the world. As a result, drones, cruise missiles and Moabs are forced to bear the burden of “something must be done”. As the mistakenly bombed civilians of Mosul know to their cost, the targeting is inexact, but the political aim is precise. It is to secure publicity by terrifying distant places with displays of death and destruction. |
_________________ "Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange |
|
|
|
|
stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
|
Post subject: | |
|
yeah yeah yeah. The Guardian. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
|
|
|
|
Mugwump
Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Location: Between London and Melbourne
|
Post subject: | |
|
^ yeah, the Grauniad- a superior and self-regarding poodle living under the protection of the Western military every day while dining on the hand that feeds it.
i find it hard to get excited if the US drops a very large bomb on a bunch of IgnorantState fighters. the North Korea escalation, on the other hand, is genuiely alarming, and the first time Trump's loaded dog has careered off with the stick of dynamite between its teeth, as predicted. The effects could range from hellish to wholly positive, but it's not a risk that the world needs. _________________ Two more flags before I die! |
|
|
|
|
Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
|
Post subject: | |
|
David wrote: |
It's a recipe as old as the hills. People love a good bombing.
I found this a good analysis of what he's doing:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/14/donald-trump-afghanistan-bomb-syria-wild-card
Quote: | Now the president has tasted the sweet cup of war. A measure of his absurdity is that the beneficiary of the Massive Ordnance Air Blast (Moab) missile dropped on the Afghan mountains will be the local rivals of its alleged Isis victims, the rebel Taliban. It is doubtful that Trump worries about this irony. He just wanted to be seen, as he once put it, to “bomb the shit out of Isis”. He is now so hooked on gesture bombings that he holds a press conference to boast of each one.
The obscenity of the US’s legally questionable power projection is that it wins no battles and gains no territory. Western armies are clearly exhausted by fruitless ground wars in distant parts of the world. As a result, drones, cruise missiles and Moabs are forced to bear the burden of “something must be done”. As the mistakenly bombed civilians of Mosul know to their cost, the targeting is inexact, but the political aim is precise. It is to secure publicity by terrifying distant places with displays of death and destruction. |
|
This particular display seems to have cost about $450,000 per death for each of the 36 "ISIS militants":
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/14/moab-attack-isis-baffling-choice-cold-blooded-terms-cost-afghanistan
Really, if the Pentagon had asked nicely, the guys they killed would probably have topped themselves for a US government payment of half that to each of their families. |
|
|
|
|
Morrigu
Joined: 11 Aug 2001
|
|
|
|
|
Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Location: Joined 3/6/02 . Member #175
|
Post subject: | |
|
Morrigu wrote: | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SAFv2NEE-_c |
Great tune _________________ Don't count the days, make the days count. |
|
|
|
|
Morrigu
Joined: 11 Aug 2001
|
Post subject: | |
|
Amid warnings that North Korea's nuclear weapons program poses a "serious threat" to Australia, the latest contingent of United States marines to arrive in the country have said they are ready for anything.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-18/us-marines-ready-for-anything-as-latest-rotation-arrives-in-nt/8450218
GO AWAY!!! Take your war mongering septic arses back to the land of " God damn it moves - lets shoot it - lets kill it " Just Fck off
All of you and that includes you Bishop stand at a table flop em out and the one with the biggest dick wins ok! _________________ “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” |
|
|
|
|
|