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What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

Started by FunkMonk, November 08, 2016, 11:02:57 PM

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Admiral Yi


The Minsky Moment

One thing is for certain, Venezuela will never know what hit them.

Except in the extremely unlikely event that Venezuela monitors public statements by the US President or picks up major news stories reported in all international media outlets.
We have, accordingly, always had plenty of excellent lawyers, though we often had to do without even tolerable administrators, and seen destined to endure the inconvenience of hereafter doing without any constructive statesmen at all.
--Woodrow Wilson

HVC

Its been a while since the bay of pigs, americas due for another carribean embarrassment. With all the forewarning the possibility is there.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Baron von Schtinkenbutt

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on October 15, 2025, 06:11:52 PMOne thing is for certain, Venezuela will never know what hit them.

Except in the extremely unlikely event that Venezuela monitors public statements by the US President or picks up major news stories reported in all international media outlets.

Isn't it so funny how the Japanese are setting their depth charges too shallow because they actually believed the yard certificates on our submarines?

Syt

So all news organizations except One American New Network (OANN) have now left the Pentagon. Good on them.

https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-access-hegseth-trump-restrictions-5d9c2a63e4e03b91fc1546bb09ffbf12

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"What they're really doing, they want to spoon-feed information to the journalist, and that would be their story. That's not journalism," said Jack Keane, a retired U.S. Army general and Fox News analyst, said on Hegseth's former network.

When he served, Keane said he required new brigadier generals to take a class on the role of the media in a democracy so they wouldn't be intimidated and also see reporters as a conduit to the American public. "There were times when stories were done that made me flinch a little bit," he said. "But that's usually because we had done something that wasn't as good as we should have done it."

Youssef said it made no sense to sign on to rules that said reporters should not solicit military officials for information. "To agree to not solicit information is to agree to not be a journalist," she said. "Our whole goal is soliciting information."

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